v mun...\" Social Security and Medicare Time Bombs refers to the declining number of workers who will be paying for taxes into the Social Security system and the Medicare system. At the same time however, the number of retirees will steadily increase over the next few years. This also refers to the different shortfalls of Social Security and Medicare. Some of these shortfalls within Social Security include the exhausted trust fund and the fact that annual tax revenues will only cover 75 percent of promised benets. Some of the shortfalls within Medicare also include a depleted trust fund and the current Medicare tax will also decline over the next several years. To prevent the detonation, I would recommend reducing benets to help x this problem. | feel that increasing taxes would result in several other problems such as preventing or discouraging those who want to pursue a higher education orjob. Even though I would disagree with this plan, I think that taxes will ultimately be raised to resolve the solvency issues related to the entitlement programs