(11-08-2020, 05:06 PM)hazard Wrote: Entirely valid question Geth.
Would you support SSDI if your father wasn't disabled and in need of it?
I mean, what if it's a different program you don't benefit directly from but does have a large and extensive impact on the health and wellbeing of hundreds of thousands if not millions of citizens?
Yes. Social Security has such broad-reaching implications NO ONE, regardless of their politics, should mess with it, unless they handle it with the greatest care.
Some issues are more given leeway on the debate, like whether we need to spend more money on highways or other interstate issues of that nature. At the end of the day, those can be fixed far more easily if someone makes a bad call.
Social Security, on the other hand, is right up there with all the other basic "don't meddle with this unless you have expertly researched the options prior, and even then tread cautiously" positions, like our need to have a bare minimum for maintaining the postal system and need to regulate universal questions of law enforcement and civil defense that it would lead to anarchy and societal breakdown if we didn't.