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Again you arrogantly ask if someone who has paid into the government ponzi schemes “takes” their retirement benefits.
The ones they have paid for all their adult working lives.

As if they should eschew them, for the betterment of an imported slave class of illegal aliens, or to sacrifice more for for your own personal gain?

You asked me what my “sacred cow” is.
My answer is “integrity”.
That's my “sacred cow”.

A heavy burden you know little about.

Your damned right I do! There is absolutely no comparison between these government-mandated “insurance plans” and public sector employee benefits and pensions which are, in most cases paid entirely by the government with taxpayer funds. I wished that I had been able to “opt out” of all of it, because I would have a lot more to spend in my retirement ( even with the trashing of the stock market) if I had had that money to invest rather than having had to give it to the government to squander. I remember the “expressed horror” of the PE unions in New Jersey when Christie made their members pony up something out of their own pockets a year or two ago. Here in California, public employees are currently paying 2% of their pay into their retirement. The cops and the firefighters retire here at 50! We have had two fire chiefs retire in the past three years. One at 51 the other ( his successor) at 50. Their salaries were $188,000 per year their last year. Thanks to “our generosity” the first guy's first year pension was $286,000! He (and his wife) will probably live to at least age 80 (also thanks to our again “generous” health benefits that are fully paid). You do the math about what that will cost the taxpayers. Oh and BTW, the average firefighter who earns about $100,000 per year doubles that with his “overtime” thanks to the union system of calling in sick in order to pump it up. So sorry, I still have no sympathy. That's just a word in the dictionary between $hit and Syphilis