Needless to say, if this Congress can't even tie its own hands with respect to the SuperWanker Committee they of course can't tie the hands of future Congresses. Yes there's always a bit of rigidity in the system - some changes are stickier than others - but nothing prevents the future supermajority Republican Congress from setting the tax rate on rich people to zero. And then, of course, using the resulting deficit as a reason to zero out Social Security benefits.
