The above shows the cash stolen from Social Security's 12.4 percent of payroll taxes over the years. It does not include Medicare's 2.9 percent portion or the "interest" the pirates add by simply dumping more bonds into the Social Security Trust fund.

With interest added, the Social Security trust fund's bogus "holdings" show annual increases that look like this:

Notice that even if surpluses stop going into government coffers, the interest will continue to increase in perpetuity as long as there's one dollar in surplus. All the more reason to reform Social Security by increasing payroll taxes.

Payroll taxes have already increased 49 times in Social Security's history (see table).