Almost half of Generation Z adults said they don’t expect to get any of the Social Security benefits they’ve earned, according to a survey. In a survey released Tuesday by the Nationwide Ret…
Bush Jr ran on privatizing SS and got absolutely washed in 2006.
Obama ran on scaling back entitlements and got washed in 2010.
You are proving my point here, when it’s your explicit purpose, it is a failure. When you package it as a political morality sandwich in other things, it wins.
Kentucky had to sell the expansion as their own idea, packaged up for GOP consumption. They can sell losses in service to those same people, and do, by convincing them the government is too big. Too big and you should get less services because it’s evil. Evil big government that can’t possibly and won’t possibly do any good.
It’s never direct kill, with the exception of “Obamacare”, because that was about their biggest donors, but still packaged as an illegal tax as rationale with a promise of a “better replacement”. It’s always instead of a direct removal of benefit, an affront to some idea logical sensibility and that justifies reduction in funding a service.
Of course the GOP won’t just say, my platform is killing SS. They will make it about someone else they can hate on as reason to harm them, while still harming the useless idiots that vote for it. So long as the base voters can harm someone else they dislike more than it hurts themselves, it will be allowed to die slowly as an unfunded mandate of reducing benefit while still getting the reps doing it re-elected.
You are proving my point here, when it’s your explicit purpose, it is a failure. When you package it as a political morality sandwich in other things, it wins.
Kentucky had to sell the expansion as their own idea, packaged up for GOP consumption. They can sell losses in service to those same people, and do, by convincing them the government is too big. Too big and you should get less services because it’s evil. Evil big government that can’t possibly and won’t possibly do any good.
It’s never direct kill, with the exception of “Obamacare”, because that was about their biggest donors, but still packaged as an illegal tax as rationale with a promise of a “better replacement”. It’s always instead of a direct removal of benefit, an affront to some idea logical sensibility and that justifies reduction in funding a service.
Of course the GOP won’t just say, my platform is killing SS. They will make it about someone else they can hate on as reason to harm them, while still harming the useless idiots that vote for it. So long as the base voters can harm someone else they dislike more than it hurts themselves, it will be allowed to die slowly as an unfunded mandate of reducing benefit while still getting the reps doing it re-elected.