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Originally Posted by valo403
You're acting as if the absence of an OAS type system hasn't been remedied through other means. By all means question the effectiveness of any particular method, but don't act like you just eliminate the whole concept altogether without dire consequences for a significant part of the population.
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Of course eliminating OAS at this point would cause dire consequences to some people who are counting on it. The argument that if Canada never had OAS ever many seniors would be living on the streets today. This is simple not true.
It's like saying if we never had universal health care, many people today will die from sickness.
I'm more interested in arguing if giving out money to seniors by and large based on age, that causes the country to go into debt, is a good thing to the society.