Some might consider focus on roading corruption to be straining at gnats and swallowing camels. E.g. apart from Social Security currently expected to run out of $ in 2033, the unfunded Medicare $17T deficit makes the banking crisis look like chump change.

Easy to blame politicians- except that for years the electorate punished competent stewards who wanted to fund those schemes properly and rewarded those who promised lower taxes. Medicare in particular was run as a Ponzi scheme by coward politicians and a selfish electorate that professed to be making hay while the sun shone but actually was having a hearty dinner from the seed stock.

Unless you're prepared to give up your Medicare benefits, options now include wrestling healthcare cover for the young back off private insurers so surpluses can be invested to cover policyholders' predictable future costs and help cover the costs of the current ponzi recipients, super inflation, or huge taxes levied on somebody. As long as they cater for the tendency to hold assets in perpetual trusts or company structures that outlive their founders, inheritance taxes probably are fairest as they come from the estate of those who chose not to fund schemes properly when underwriting was easier and compound growth would have delivered a huge equity pot that could have covered a trillion here or there without even noticing.