Do you mean Medicare or Medicaid? Medicare stays with Social Security. People worked for that and paid into it. Medicare is fine. It hasn't had a tax rate increase in 30 years so there's really no problem with Medicare or Social Security which hasn't had a tax rate increase in 26 years. Neither one of those are the cause of budget deficits or higher taxes or national debt.

Medicaid on the other hand is the biggest user/abuser/loser. I would like for the federal government to get completely out of the Medicaid program. Put it all on the States. It's their poverty and policies that cause and promote this expenditure. You get the federal government out of the Medicaid program and you won't have an illegal alien problem, you won't have a breeding problem, you won't have a jobs and wages problem.

But then the States won't be able to afford it unless the feds give up on the evil disgusting federal income tax, so pass the FairTax and turn Medicaid over to the states, lock stock and barrel. Problems solved in one swoop.

I realize you want to get rid of the federal income tax but want a different apportionment federal system. The problem I have with that plan is that now the states will have the big income tax and raise property taxes and have more sales taxes. Problem becomes even larger that way, it seems to me.

If the FairTax is passed at federal, then the states will see the wisdom and move all their taxes to the FairTax at State and Local levels, eliminating income and property taxes.