[CMAC51]

One thing we could do is try to eliminate the separate withholding. Just roll it into the income tax.

You do realize that SS is a flat tax and you are advocating replacing it with a graduated income tax. Graduated income tax is at the heart of our fiscal insanity and your are recommending that our dependence on it increase.

[Huck]

Flat schmat. It's just another 6 points on top of everything else. Just toss it on the pile. Eliminate the separate withholding, because it creates the illusion that SS is a funded pension program (which it is not.) Just make it another program, funded from general revenue, and then over time we'll be able to kill it.