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It goes into the Social Security Trust Fund.
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So here's the Social Security Trust Fund
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which is now around 2 trillion, which is going to keep growing
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because contributions are going to be bigger than benefits until 2020 or so,
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and at that point contributions--that's the baby boom generation,
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that's me retiring, or a little later in my case,
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but anyway the baby boom generation--
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in fact since I'm a Yale professor it's out here somewhere.
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So anyway, my generation's going to start retiring here
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and then the benefits--
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so we're going to be not working, not paying taxes
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but we're collecting benefits and there are so many of us