Of course it is not “necessary”! These folks will puts for total Government control regardless of who pays - after all when the Federal Government controls you, what does it matter?
We are lost if this continues... Maybe it is simply because of the majority voting for their benefits. Maybe it is because we have dropped border control and let in enough people that the majority can vote for their own benefits.
America seems to be lost to the normal voter. Australia is looking nice these days.
I understand New Zealand’s national debt is 30% of their GDP whereas we’ve exceeded 100% debt to GDP in America already and the political class is unconcerned, printing more money than we can ever imagine OR repay.