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OK, let's get realistic. If by "raid" we simply mean that Washington has been able to "use" our payroll taxes for something other than supporting Social Security, then there might be a case to be made. The Reagan administration famously used the hike in payroll tax receipts in the 1980s - which was already scheduled in the 1977 Amendments, Reagan and Congress just moved the dates up - to compensate for the tax cuts he'd pushed through in 1981, and which had ballooned the deficit. Since then, ordinary workers' payroll taxes have essentially be used to pay for tax cuts for the affluent.

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