Ask HN: Tax transistors? Funding basic income in post-work world?

I'm convinced that we are taxing completely wrong. Money is earned using the shared resources of our society -- education, roads, communication, military, fire, police -- all paid for by taxes. On top of that, we need to recognize that Congress also spends money through tax deductions and things not taxed. So we need to move away from taxes -- into taxing business that profits from those shared public resources so we can return profit to the public.

Don't we already have UBI? That's what the social security program looks like to me. It seems to me that if you want to expand UBI, you would be working to lower the retirement age. That's exactly the opposite of what is currently happening. The retirement age is rising, and the payments are shrinking. It doesn't seem like throwing taxation at the problem will address it.