Depends on how the new taxes are allocated, and how much money gets channeled into SS. I think if they "trim the fat" and kill a lot of the nonsensical programs, SS should be okay. It's viable until 2036 as it is, but after that there will be a 19% cut across the board. Something needs to be done, and done quickly. There are a lot of people depending on getting a return on all the money they've invested in the program. As it is, it's so far gone that current benefits are paid along the lines of a ponzi scheme... which never works long-term. Sooner or later the bubble will burst. Can't blame it on the baby boomers reaching retirement age, either... they worked and paid into the system. It's the "hands-in-the-cookie-jar" that is killing SS. Borrowing money from the fund and putting in worthless bonds as IOU's doesn't cut it. It isn't, nor has ever been, and "entitlement". The money you put into savings isn't an entitlement, and neither is the money you put into SS. There... I said it.
