[Hugh R]

Not too sure, but doesn't Medicare already have unfunded mandates that are potentially many times greater than Social Security already? I've read, somewhere that in 20 years or so that the entire Federal Budget, as currently projected, would be consumed by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Let alone anything else. That to fund all these pie-in-the-sky programs, AND the rest of the Federal budget, that taxes could go to 70% or more.