Abstract
Social protection, an important tool for raising people's quality of life, is the basis of a democratically strong society. The guarantee of realization of social rights reverberates in the quality of popular participation in political processes, as people stop worrying only about issues of mere survival and start to act effectively in the decision-making of society. Although social security shows relevance in the legal order, its budget suffers interference that affects the solvency and robustness of the system. The objective is to study the importance of this right in the formation of quality political actors. The relevance is in the constant proposals for greater austerity in the rules for granting social security benefits and in neoliberalism that aims to reduce the size of the State, which can generate less social coverage and decrease the quality of life indices of the population, greatly affecting popular participation in politics. In a doctrinal research, the jurists' thoughts about this relationship between security rights and democracy were analyzed and if the disadvantaged treatment given to these rights reflects in the tax collection. It concludes by distorting the treatment of the right to social security in the legal order, with a consequent reflection on the interferences suffered by its budget, weakening democracy.
Keywords:
social security; fundamental rights; taxation; social contributions; democracy