Really key point here. The *overall* national poverty rate would be 6.5 points higher without social security, it reduces poverty by a much larger multiple than any other US gov't program. And again, this is in terms of the total population, not the poverty rate of seniors alone.
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" It's not this old people... Social security keep young people from having to distribute their own resources to care for old people"
People don't stop retiring in their old age... They just rely on family.
Either these people are really dumb, or they think they don’t need political legitimacy in 2/4 years. These are not mutually exclusive possibilities.