If you taxed the rich and corporations like Europe does you could easily have social security. The rich in the US love making Europe the boogeyman that stole your social security, while they laugh all the way to the bank.

Is that really a narrative that people believe in? (that the EU “stole” the money that would otherwise go towards social security in the US)

wild

Some do:

U.S. Is Not a Piggy Bank for Europe’s Socialist Policies

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2024/03/11/u-s-is-not-a-piggy...

Just like people believe the EU is subsiding the success of the US by its lack of military