.ByronDonalds bests JoyAnnReid on Social Security insolvency, underperformance compared to S&P 500, writes TianatheFirst.
"My friend Jodey Arrington, who's going to chair the [House Budget Committee], he wants to look into the budget and also look into entitlements," the Florida Republican told Reid."Do you know that Social Security is going to be insolvent in 2035?"Despite Reid's repeated protestations that Donalds's question was"not true," it is a sad fact that Social Security will reach insolvency by 2035 at the absolute latest.
After continuing to deny the reality of the situation, Reid broke out the"Tea Party" strawman, claiming that the GOP wants to privatize Social Security, something that former President Donald Trump explicitly ran against and that former President George W. Bush dropped within weeks. "If you look at the returns of the S&P 500 since 2006 until today, the growth rate of the S&P 500 would have more than taken care of Social Security, way more than the federal government has," Donalds responded.
That is eminently true. Even with the Federal Reserve deflating asset bubbles across the New York Stock exchange, the S&P 500 has garnered a 309% return since 2006, which is nearly 9% per year. Even the liberal Economic Policy Institute estimates that the average annual rate of return for Social Security recipients is less than 6%.
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