The government in France is already a quarter of GDP, and ultimately a society can't consume more than it produces perpetually. If any generation (cough Boomers) didn't pay enough in to cover the pensions they promised themselves there's only 2 choices:
1) take less money, either per month or by starting later
2) get the next generation to pay for it.
(2) is historically the choice governments have liked better, but the population pyramid doesn't support that any more, and if you raised contributions a bunch I think you'd likely get big protests over that as well.
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