Social Security Does Not Contribute to the Deficit: Lessons for the Washington Post

The Washington Post is getting very upset that people refuse to accept its assertion that Social Security contributes to the deficit. An editorial today angrily referred to the "mythology that, though the pension and disability program is facing ever-widening shortfalls, it isn’t contributing to the overall deficit."

It's not clear why the Post thinks of the law (even as acknowledged by Republican Social Security trustee Charles Blahous) that Social Security can only spend its designated rev...