I never understood the old "anti-socialist" folks saying "it's not a socialism it's my money" about SS.
By that logic they must be OK with people who work and pay taxes supporting any social program they like.
They must be especially OK with with people in a higher tax bracket than they are supporting any social program they like.
Therefore they must support socialism.
We were not given any choice, for those who are collecting or are about to collect, they may find it hard to turn down over 30K a year.