[Skepolitic]

I don’t see why this is at all controversial.

The main function of government is to pay sinecures to old people. Pensions, social security old age and survivors benefits, and Medicare consume the lion’s share of government budgets.

I fully expect geezers to argue that they deserve their social security and Medicare because they “paid into the system” for decades. True enough that they paid into it, but US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that nobody has a property right to social security benefits. Legally, social security is just like any welfare program that can be modified or eliminated by any future Congress. Government pensions, on the other hand, do create an enforceable property right to pension benefits.

[kiryandil]

I fully expect geezers to argue that they deserve their social security and Medicare because they “paid into the system” for decades. True enough that they paid into it, but US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that nobody has a property right to social security benefits. Legally, social security is just like any welfare program that can be modified or eliminated by any future Congress.

True, but I'd like to see them skin that smokewagon, and see what happens...