(11-08-2020, 04:18 PM)robkelk Wrote: Wait a minute... You folks don't put your federal pension plan at arm's length from the legislators?
Who the heck advises your government on economics?
As originally implemented, the Social Security program implemented under FDR was a modified version of a proposed plan already in existence, just made to be more politically workable and was signed into law by the same.
As it stands, Social Security is considered the "third rail" of US politics, at least by most people, as tampering with it is considered madness at best. However, due to how it's a law that required the assent of Congress over a presidential veto or a presidential signature (which it got), that means it can still be tampered with later, but most people on both sides of the aisle have been leery of doing so without the greatest degree of caution.
I definitely support not meddling with SSDI (my father is disabled and needs it), and Trump's idea sounds more than a little crazy and I wished I had known the full effects of his plans for that earlier, but what's done is done.