The money for Social Security payments to current retirees comes from

A. payroll taxes collected from those retirees when they were working.
B. income taxes collected from the current working population.
C. payroll taxes collected from the current working population.
D. only the interest earned now by the government on the invested Social Security trust fund.


Answer: C

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