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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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If I had the time, and I actually thought you would read them, I could point to a few studies on the social return on investment that show that investing money in people who would otherwise be destitute costs society far less than dealing with the consequences of them being destitute. It is actually to the order of several magnitudes.
I understand that you really just think
these people any disadvantaged person should fend for themselves. I understand that you don't think the government should be spending money on them at all. However, the reality is, it wouldn't be cheaper in this case.