re: "I do not mean benefits that are earned - wages and benefits paid to government employees or Social Security recipients who paid into the system."
Care would have to be taken to prevent politicians from awarding token "jobs" that pay what might as well be welfare money and grant the recipient the right to vote. Suppose the "job" is to care for your own child.
It's difficult to decide at what point government workers transition over to being government beneficiaries. And it's still more difficult when it comes to government contractors.
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