First you get huge segments of your population dependent upon you for their very lives. . .
then you threaten to withhold monies if you don’t get your way. . .
behold, a nation of slaves!
I say stop the SS checks. Let people suffer the consequences of trusting government for their livelihood. It will take massive pain for people to wake up to that fact. That will be the start of the unraveling of the nanny state and return to limited constitutional government.