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Of course private companies can do whatever to attract customers but what of reduced transit fares, museum tickets, library programs, college classes and most important state level TAX FREE social security income.

A History Lesson on the Senior Discount:

Senior discounts originated as both a social and economic strategy. During the Great Depression, seniors were disproportionately poor, prompting the 1935 Social Security Act to provide federal assistance. This established a precedent for viewing seniors as a group needing financial support.

In the 1960s and 1970s, public agencies and businesses began offering discounts to seniors, partly as a social responsibility during the "Great Society" era and partly as a marketing tool to attract older consumers. New York City launched one of the first organized discount programs in 1971. By the 1980s, with a growing senior population, businesses recognized seniors as an affluent and active demographic, using discounts to foster brand loyalty and attract this expanding market.

Today, senior discounts persist due to their effectiveness in appealing to older consumers and their fixed incomes, though debates continue about their relevance given changing economic conditions.

Senior discounts, particularly in the form of tax exemptions or subsidies, can lead to significant lost government revenue. For example, state income tax subsidies for seniors in the U. S. reduce state tax collections by approximately 9%, amounting to $48 billion annually. These subsidies often include exemptions for Social Security income and retirement benefits, even for wealthy seniors, further straining state budgets.

Such revenue losses limit governments' ability to fund essential services like infrastructure, education, and poverty reduction programs. Additionally, these subsidies often shift the tax burden onto younger taxpayers, raising concerns about fairness and generational equity.

Officials regularly ignore the rankings, leapfrogging over hundreds or even thousands of people when they give out kidneys, livers, lungs and hearts.

These organs often go to recipients who are not as sick, have not been waiting nearly as long and, in some cases, are not on the list at all, a New York Times investigation found. Last year, officials skipped patients on the waiting lists for nearly 20 percent of transplants from deceased donors, six times as often as a few years earlier. It is a profound shift in the transplant system, whose promise of equality has become increasingly warped by expediency and favoritism. Other groups have benefited, too, data shows: Asian patients, men, college graduates and candidates at larger hospitals.

THIS is the kind of "baked in" institutional racism that CRT attempts to study and MAGA denies. THIS is the result of for profit healthcare. It's criminal. It's depraved indifference to human life.

Ignore that he was in his 20s at the time.

When taking into account his Thriller popularity, his international reach, and vice-presidential candidates (depending on what you think of the party he'd be)—what were his chances?

He seems like a Green Party individual to me; however, that did not exist yet, so Independent it is. Democrats and Republicans seem too extreme and divisive for his beliefs and public image interests at the time.

If he went the independent route, he'd obviously have to rely on the public for their financial support, etc. So winning the popular vote would be a priority over the electoral college, so his chances right off the bat are already slim. Unless there's a couple of Democrat billionaires who would see potential in rallying their support behind him over Reagan after the shooting incident.