On Dec 31, 5:52*am, "PJ O'D" wrote:
Why Liberals are really reluctant to means test Social Security
benefits

"..Social Security and Medicare depends heavily on the fact that many
Americans don’t see them as wealth redistribution programs, but as
earned benefits. “I paid in, I deserve to get something
back.” ...Means testing would make that view far less plausible, since
it would make it hard to disguise that these are not insurance plans
but welfare programs..."

google it

nor should they means test the programs. that is a backdoor to
slashing benefits, so that the charlatans and wealthy cranks that
initiated urinated on ecomomics, do not have to be self responsible,
and pay back the loans they took out from s.s., to cover up the huge
failure the trickled on economics produces.