Seconding lmm’s comment: the main reason social security remains popular is that everyone receives it. Yes, it’s crazy that billionaires get it but there aren’

Seconding lmm’s comment: the main reason social security remains popular is that everyone receives it. Yes, it’s crazy that billionaires get it but there aren’t a lot of them. If you look at some of the “fraud prevention” criteria some states implement you find they often (true: not always) end up costing more than the fraud they are supposedly preventing. Meanwhile they provide hoops legitimately qualifying people find hard to jump through, which defeats the point of having the program in the first place. Sometimes I think that’s the actual goal of these programs.