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You're suggesting social security raises more than $695 Billion dollars in revenue? I'd need to see some legitimate sources showing that, and not some liberal blog throwing up a random image without any numbers of information backing up how they got it.
Unless you're talking about Social Security taxes as opposed to social security payouts, in which case no dice. That social security tax is part of the overall revenue generated. So its already taken into account in regards to the total federal revenue generated, which is still leaving us with a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit. If you have accurate and official numbers for what the total revenue would be sans SS tax and we remove the SS spending from the equation and judge the whole thing there, I'd be interested in seeing it.
But as it stands. Both SS taxes and SS spending is included in the total budget regarding the amount of revenue and the amount of spending. You can not erase one and ignore the other.
SS has historically had a surplus. Over the years, I think it's something like $12T in surpluses