"Independent experts see substantial evidence that disability insurance increasingly serves as a safety net for people who cannot find jobs - people, that is, who might still have the ability to perform at least some kinds of work." Some families depend on their disability checks to survive. This means that not only do the vast majority of people in the disability program not return to work, but this also results in more stress on taxes so the government can provide these people that are in the disability program with their monthly checks.

"Between the end of World War II and the late 1970s, incomes in the United States were becoming more equal. In other words, incomes at the bottom were rising faster than those at the top. Since the late 1970s, this trend has reversed." Ever since World War II, the income gap has increased. For instance, as of 2012, 22% of the Pre-Tax income of all of the United States goes to the top 1% of household incomes. This shows imbalance between the incomes of these people and the incomes of people closer to the median.