It is because most people don’t have anything to live on if they don’t work.
Somehow, we have the idea that after 65 an able bodied man doesn’t need to work and can be supported by others. That isn’t how it is done.
Not just work, but also they can’t save enough either.
I say cut off all SS for anyone that’s able. If they medically can’t work at any age over 18, give them even more than now. People with Cerebral Palsy and so on should not be forced to starve or die.
However, everyone getting a free ticket after x age is pretty anti-conservative imo. People will get just as addicted to obamacare and scream for it too.
They say a conservative is a liberal that’s been mugged. It appears a liberal is a conservative that turned 55.