The government has maintained the construct of separate trust funds for SS and Medicare. I hear plenty of people chattering about different dates when each of the funds “goes broke”. No, finding some excuse to deny benefits to 3-5% of recipients will not dent the overall deficit, but a nip here, a bite there, and the administration can boast about more tax cuts for the “JCs”. That is what we saw in Michigan, under the last red Gov, who was a “JC”: tax increases, and reduced services, for the Proles, and tax cuts for the “JCs”.
Steve