How is social security in the US at risk of running out of funding, if every tax payer pays into it?

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How is social security in the US at risk of running out of funding, if every tax payer pays into it?

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The government prints the money. Social security is not like your or my checking account, it does not have to have a positive balance. Saying that Social security will run out of money is a scare tactic and only that. I can only get back what I put in. The US military can spend money from a bottomless checkbook but Social security has to balance it’s checkbook? Bulls**t.