Growth is the only way out
I would argue that there isn’t any amount of growth that could out-earn what today’s Congress can spend. A balanced budget PLUS a banging economy could do it, but we would be right back where we started as soon as we elect someone that isn’t a free market capitalist.
Either way, we need a Convention of States to restore the check and balance that states lost when we passed the 17th Amendment, making U.S. senators popularly elected instead of appointed by the state legislatures. We already had the House of Representatives, and the 17th Amdt. meant that instead of representing the states’ interests, they served the federal government.
Growth doesn’t hurt. But growth alone can’t solve the problem. We would need massive spending reductions and the elimination of medicare plus some sort of recalibration of Social Security to get things under control. Nobody will do that.
When more people are working, more FICA contributes to those programs.
If Trump can eliminate all the waste, especially illegals and other like leeches, and continues to build the workforce, there will be no SS crisis.
Actually, I've never thought SS was in jeopardy.