So you are confirming that the contributions are set so as to balance the current fund. This means that the $57 billion that was invested as contributions by employers and employees since the beginning of the fund have simply been ignored.
I am trying to understand how that amount can simply be ignored and how you can act as though it no longer exists. The Supreme Court decision regarding the $57 billion fund stated that the government could take that amount on condition that it continue to grant benefits normally and ensure that the program continue to function.
Moreover, the contributions are determined by the amounts accumulated in a fund created in 2009. The $57 billion is a notional amount, but real people contributed to it. However, it is as though it no longer exists for the purposes of the government's decisions. Is that true?