How is social security in the US at risk of running out of funding, if every tax payer pays into it?

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How is social security in the US at risk of running out of funding, if every tax payer pays into it?

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The government is spending your tax money on whichever pork project they want instead of in a lot of cases what the tax was passed to actually pay for. One of the many reasons they keep having to pass new highway maintenance bills to come up with the money to actually pay the bills to maintain the roads even though people have been paying tax for that purpose since the 1940s.