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Any politician who voted for benefit cuts, or allowed benefits to be cut, for anyone currently collecting benefits or really anyone above about the age of 50 would be immediately swept from office.
Yes, but...
In 1982 they started charging income tax on SS benefits. That's like charging tax on the money you withdraw from your savings account. No politicians were swept out of office.
They also changed the rules on investment real-estate, wiping out huge numbers of small people who invested via RE trusts. My parents were one of them.
They don't need to directly cut benefits. There are many ways to effectively cut benefits by just changing the rules around them. Like, for example, changing the way they compute the SS inflation adjustment.
