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I'm done discussing this with someone who is immune to logic.The government paid $87 billion to the government? Remember the post where I asked you to take $20 from one pocket and put it in your other pocket?
The government paid $87 billion to the government?
You got it!!
The US Treasury part of government paid $87 billion to the Trust Fund part of government.
Keeping it all in the family.
Remember the post where I asked you to take $20 from one pocket and put it in your other pocket?
Remember the post where I paid interest to my family member?
Or isn't that allowed?
How much money would the government have saved if the Trust fund had a $1 trillion stack of $20s in a vault?
There's no interest, moron. How does a piece of paper in your pocket generate interest?
The government would have saved nothing, since the government prints federal reserve notes.
There's no interest
Except for the $87 billion in 2016...…
How does a piece of paper in your pocket generate interest?
Or $1 trillion in a vault?
The government would have saved nothing, since the government prints federal reserve notes.
If the government takes perfectly good payroll tax receipts and instead of investing them in T-Bills, buys $20s and puts the $20s in a vault, there is no opportunity cost there?
Both the T bills and the notes are worthless pieces of paper that the government prints. They are of no value to the government. They only have value to the public because they can be used to extract things of value from other members of the public.
Both the T bills and the notes are worthless pieces of paper that the government prints.
I have both T-Bills (<<< they don't actually print T-Bills, book entry only) and $20s and I can tell you, none of them are worthless.
They are of no value to the government.
Well, the extra money the payroll taxes bring in, over and above benefits paid out, ARE of value to the government because they reduce the number of T-Bills the Treasury has to sell to China.
That means less taxes have to be collected from me and you, to mail a check to furriners.
In 2016, $87 billion less was sent to furriners, thanks to those "worthless pieces of paper" the
Trust Fund bought from the Treasury.