[lewislynn]

Increases in payroll and income tax withholdings have happened and will have to continue to currently fund promised benefits.It is not a hypothetical

I guess you didn't hear about the Bush tax cuts.

How would a sales tax end funding "promised benefits"?

[woodbeez]

You called my scenario hypothetical. I was merely pointing out it wasn't. It has actually happened. Check out the "reform" of SS in the 80s.

I guess you didn't hear about the Bush tax cuts.

I hope he pushes to make those tax cuts permanent and continues cutting taxes. Any income tax reduction would reduce the NST %.

How would a sales tax end funding "promised benefits"?.

It wouldn't. Social Security (as it is) remains the same. I'm all for reforming that too.