I am on Medicare and Social Security. I would vote in a heartbeat to eliminate both and every other government intervention in Health, Insurance, Education, Transportation and a lot of Etc. Are there a hundred of us in the country? Fifty?
I don’t know what medicare is, but I wouldn’t vote to SUDDENLY end SS for any reason, I would vote for reform, or for a reasonable way to eventually eliminate it, in fact, that does help guide my voting.
To say that a person should pay into SS for 50 years and then at age 65, when they are old and worn out, that they must refuse their SS to be principled, is ridiculous.
If one is wealthy they can indulge whatever whim they want, but it would be irrational for none wealthy and poor conservatives to make that the routine conservative protest for their last years.
I’m against the pay and retirement structure of the military, I am a vet, but I don’t expect vets and active duty to martyr themselves in a weird, pathetic gesture that doesn’t even make sense.
Eact is that the government already the money, taken from many different people, and is doling it out as it sees fit. We have been content to let it make those decisions.