Boys and girls, I'm sorry to rain on a parade, but Medicare and Sosha Curity are all part of the same transfer payment sector of federal spending as welfare. It's called entitlements. It makes up 75 percent of the federal budget.
According to the Kerrey/Danforth Report (which we had to read in a superior college Macroeconomics class back in the early 90s) if nothing is done to rein in entitlement spending, then by the year 2030 the entire federal budget will be nothing but interest on Sosha Curity. No military, food stamps, roads, Congressional salaries.
And taxation will be at 90 percent for all sectors.
And we become the Weimar Republic.