You raise a very good point that means testing wouldn't save very much money unless the cutoff was very low and cut into middle-income retirees. So perhaps my

You raise a very good point that means testing wouldn't save very much money unless the cutoff was very low and cut into middle-income retirees. So perhaps my guess about this is wrong. It just seems so politically easy though. "Why should millionaires get SS benefits while the middle-class suffers?" is a good sound bite.