people are living too long

I find it highly alarming that these words keep getting taken out of context like some kind of Gotcha! Yes, in order to sustain the scam that is modern economics we must continue perpetual cancerous growth of the species. This is not just a social security thing. It's the entire debt based system we live in. Nobody is claiming we need to strive to maintain the scam... except those who do it unknowingly or in bad faith. That's a strawman argument.

Social security is a forced system of debt that steals from the population just like any other tax. The first people that got benefits didn't have to pay into the system and the last people to pay will not get benefits. It's a scam by definition, but perhaps it is more accurate to classify it as racketeering or protection money or some other crime.

Your argument that we can somehow bail out this broken system by stemming corruption elsewhere is irrelevant sentiment. Your solution here of "tax the rich" was not on my bingo card. Social Security is one of the most blatant examples of badly articulated socialism there is. No working citizen should have to pay into this dogshit program. If SS has merit it should just be "UBI for old people". The tax itself is completely unjustifiable. Truly shocking that you're going all Bernie Bro on me right now.