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View submission: Elon Musk can’t balance the budget
I still think this is one of those moves that would be so deeply unpopular as to be political suicide. You'd be facing 80/20 margins in the above 65 crowd and all the 50 year olds who have paid into it for 30 years realizing they won't see a cent will shed towards democrats. I think a lot of people either don't know or don't believe it's really on the table and if it was actually taken away with no replacement it'd be a problem.
It'd be a disaster for the economy when people on fixed budgets have to sell their homes they can no longer afford and property values (and therefore taxes) plummet across the country because the supply becomes inundated with the homes of the elderly. These people will need somewhere to live. They won't forget who took their home from them. City budgets would collapse, the resulting issues will easily be pinned on Trump and the GOP.
Trump is still accountable to the GOP, who can impeach him, and the GOP is still accountable to their electorate since they *DO* have to face reelection.
There's nothing here!