[dragonwriter]

> You receive Social Security roughly proportional to your contribution.

Well, its a monotonically increasing function of your contributions, but its not proportional to them, because of the bend points.

> If you remove the cap on contribution and/or means test the receipt then that pretense is gone.

Means testing might arguably do that in theory (except that it empirically doesn't in practice, as SS is, in fact, already means-tested via the rules for taxability), but how does removing the contribution cap so long as further contributions above the old cap still contribute to the benefit calculation?