The other problem with it is that the poverty line is incredibly perversely defined and not really close to an actual living income.
Then increasing it to something more realistic is a good starting point.
Can't argue with that.
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other other problem would be that making Social Security a 'poor people' entitlement as opposed to an 'everybody' entitlement--
even if 'poor' was defined as broadly as 'unable to fully fund their own pension'--would mean that it would no longer be as relatively speaking insulated as it now is from the political depredations of those who hate the poor.
