09-18-2017, 01:12 PM
(09-18-2017, 12:11 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: If there is no gov safety net programs then people will just have more children to take care of them when they are old. That is often how families did this for years.
A government can't account for future liabilities this way, it's not how the real world works. You can't risk running into a situation where a large portion of your aging population ends up in poverty. Again, the cheapest way to do this is incentivize people into saving for themselves. It is the same idea around proactive health programs. It is cheaper to get people to keep themselves healthy than it is to treat them once they get sick.
