https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/congress-proposes-a-chilling-resolution-on-social-security-18193/
It had been a contentious legislative process, something like the Obamacare of its day.
Fiscally conservative politicians derided the program for its obvious
long-term costs, the massive bureaucracy that it would create, and the
huge tax increase that it represented on workers.
But Roosevelt was able to find support, and the law was passed.
And just before signing it, he proudly proclaimed that the law would
go down in history “as a protection to future administrations of the
Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish
relief to the needy.”
Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Quite the opposite, actually
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