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, - Consider also the willy-nilly growth of the Social Security number. When the numbers were created in 1935, they were supposed to
be used for one thing only, to record individual workers’ payments into the Social Security system. Eight years later, Franklin Roosevelt decided all
new federal record-keeping would be based on the numbers. In 1962, the IRS adopted them as taxpayer identification numbers. And after Congress
permitted states to use the numbers for welfare payments and driver’s licenses in 1976, they mushroomed: food stamps, school lunches, federal loans,
even blood donations required Social Security numbers. These days it’s almost impossible to open a bank account or hook up your telephone without
one.
 By: | Glenn Garvin (more quotes by Glenn Garvin or books by/about Glenn Garvin) |
Source: | Bringing The Border War Home, What Will Americans Pay To Keep Out Immigrants?, Reason, October 1995 |
Categories: | Corruption, Licensing, Socialism, Taxation, Usurpation |
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