You’re more right than you thing! Most of use elderly Social Security folks would rather give up receivables rather that soak the younger with higher taxes. In addition, I and many others would vote against higher benefits for US just because it would come from the younger generation.
Most of us have children and realize that it is going to cost them so we do actually vote for our futures (for our kids and grandkids)... So, it’s time to realize that we are not so selfish that we would vote for benefits for ourselves...
Ah, but there’s the rub: Are you ready to vote all of your benefits away?
The largest portion of our current government funding goes to pay entitlements ... social security and medicare / medicaid. Are you willing to do without that?
As you may proudly proclaim that we should cut “other things”, so is everyone else. The bottom line is that we all think we should cut the “other person’s program” —that’s politics.
I find that as I get older and closer to social security, I , too, want to “keep mine” even though I know full-well that the “Social Security Trust Fund” has always been a con. Social Security has been a Ponzi scheme from Day 1, and the money taxed today pays for today’s retirees.