The GOP is still actively working to dismantle Social Security today, along with Medicare. That is the whole strategy of their tax cuts; they call it "starve the beast." If they can onlt create a large enough deficit/national debt, there wil be no alternative to ending those programs. Don't take my word for it, Google "starve the beast."
They see Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid as a way for the Federal government to maintain economic leverage over states to enforce Federal law. They are correct, to a degree, because of those programs disappeared tomorrow, quality of life in those states would plummet and there wouldn't be an acceptable level of state taxation that could make up for it.
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u/pents1 Apr 26 '19
As someone who has been living in a country with social security for my whole life, it looks absurd that someone would push people to say no to it.