The idea takes some getting used to at first. Social Security is in trouble again. Only this time the problem is not too little money but too much. Thanks to a series of increases in payroll taxes that began in 1984, the retirement trust fund currently takes in $109 million more each day than it pays out in benefits. Federal officials expect the accumulated surplus to exceed $100 billion by December and, in the next 40 years, to mushroom to $12 trillion. Every penny will be needed to pay for the future retirement of today's 24- to 42-year-olds, the budget-busting baby...
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