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Originally Posted by darklord700
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.
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I don't get the point of your first two paragraphs. Canada has OAS, so either you're arguing for time travel or you're really not making much of a point at all.
It's great that other countries operate in a different manner, congrats to them, but you're completely dismissing the fact that the social systems they have in place to achieve a result come with costs as well. It's not like you can dispose of OAS, implement a system to achieve the same results in terms of standard of living, and come out without spending a dime.
I haven't gone through the whole thread, so maybe you already argued this, but pointing at countries that don't have an OAS type system as if it's proof of something totally misses the issue.