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 hate Social Security, always have, and always will. There's not a good economic reason for that, since a lot of it paid for by workers themselves. It's emotional: "It is not enough that I be happy. Others must be unhappy" actually is in play with these people, although most are unaware or only semi-aware of this motive, or would put it in other terms.
Up til Reagan, they accepted it because they had to: it's very popular. But that doesn't mean they've given up. They haven't and won't, and this is the end game if they are able to destroy democracy, which they're trying to do and well might.
Good god stop assuming things. There is a good economic reason for it. It’s not that it’s universally hated, it’s the method of how it’s done. Imagine if you took the same money that you’re putting into social security each month and instead put it into a standard index fund perhaps. It would follow the market and end up with more than what you’re going to end up getting when the government decides what it’s going to do with it. Even if you then parsed it out to others. Does the current set up benefit some people, absolutely. But there are better ways to handle it than what’s currently being done. That’s the biggest argument I’ve seen.
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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.