Regarding your editorial “Mayor Pete’s Senior Vote Plan” (Nov. 30): I loved “unpaid caregivers of any ‘child, elderly, or disabled dependent’ would be ‘awarded a credit toward Social Security benefits’ as if working for pay.”

So, have a couple of babies, stay home, collect Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, then when the kids grow up, move in with mom, whether she needs it or not, collect Social Security, Medicare, then onto Pete Buttigieg’s new Medicaid long-term care plan. Why work? The government will care...