How the Government Lies About Social Security
Part I
By: Devvy Kidd
December 17, 2003
NewsWithViews.com
When I ran for
Congress in 1993-94, I was determined to tell the truth about
social security to all citizens in my district regardless of how
they voted. Immediately, my advisers told me that I was insane to
invite a galactic "poop" storm
by attacking the "sacred cow" of politics. My response was, bunk! The
people of this
nation deserve the truth and I was going to give it to them.
However, in order
to
keep the seniors from throwing their AARP cards at me
during a debate or speech, I prefaced each presentation on the subject
by telling
the audience that, if elected, I would not be going to Washington, DC
to introduce
legislation that would put them on a steady diet of Purina dog chow.
My intent was to
inform them as to how this Ponzi scheme is so mathematically
flawed, it can't be saved and it certainly can't be "fixed." There is,
however, a fair
and equitable solution to this monstrous problem that has become
nothing more
than every politician's favorite campaign issue, election after
election with never
a solution in sight. It is truly reprehensible how politicians over the
past six decades
have used social security to scare "old people" for a vote.
Social security is a tax
Few people either
remember this little fact or simply have no idea how the system
even works, they have simply followed orders all their life and
"contributed." Social
security is a tax, a voluntary tax. No one is required under
any law to obtain a social
security number. If that were the case, the government would
automatically issue
everyone a number. Think about it.
Chapter 21 called
the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, Section 3102: Deduction
of Tax From Wages states:
(a) Requirement. The tax imposed by section 3101 shall be collected by the employer
of the taxpayer, by deducting the amount of the tax from the wages as and when paid....
Notice that the
word
insurance does not appear in the body of the written text. We
jump from the word "insurance" in the title to the word "tax" and the
law itself. The
word "tax" appears within the sentence structure of the body of the law
and not
"insurance." This has legal import. Section 7806 of the IR Code
explains it quite plainly:
IR Code 7806. Construction of Title
(a) Cross
References. The cross references in this title to other
portions of the title,
or other provisions of the law, where the word "see" is used, are made
only for
convenience and shall be given no legal effect.
(B) Arrangement
and
Classification. No inference, implication, or presumption of
legislative construction shall be drawn or made by reason of the
location or grouping
of any particular section of provision or portion of this title, nor
shall any table of contents,
table of cross references, or similar outline, analysis, or descriptive
matter relating to the
contents of this title shall be given any legal effect.
Because the word
"insurance" appears with the table of contents and the table of
contents is "descriptive matter" used as an "outline," the word
"insurance" has "no
legal effect." In other words, no words in the table of contents have
any force of law.
The word which does have legal effect is "tax" because it is used
within the body of
the law itself; therefore, it has the full force of law. Legally, the
word "insurance"
does not apply, means nothing, to the chapter of the Code entitled
"Federal Insurance
Contributions Act."
No one is required to obtain an SSN
If you wish to ask
someone from the government about this fact, let me demonstrate
how you will be lied to by the same person. Look at this response from
SSA in a letter
to Mr. Scott McDonald dated March 18, 1998 from Charles Mullen,
Associate
Commissioner, Office of Public Inquiries, Social Security
Administration:
"The Social
Security
Act does not require a person to have a Social Security
Number (SSN) to live and work in the United States, nor
does it require an
SSN simply for the purpose of having one. However, if someone works
without
an SSN, we cannot properly credit the earnings for the work performed."
Now, it would
appear
from even a basic understanding of the English language
that what Mr. Mullen said is this: No one is required to have an SSN to
either live
or work in the United States. If that person does not have this number
but does
work, no social security taxes would be taken out of their paycheck and
there
would be no credit ledger entry made in their name for taxes paid.
One would think
this
is quite plain and clear. However, let's look at another letter
from the same Charles Mullen about one month earlier (February 24,
1998) addressed
to me:
"People cannot
voluntarily end their participation in the program [SS]. The
payment
of social security taxes is mandatory, regardless of the
citizenship or place of
residence of either the employer or the employee. Unless specifically
exempted by
law, everyone working in the United States is required
to pay Social Security taxes."
Now, I ask you: If
obtaining an SSN is voluntary, how is it that this tax then becomes
mandatory? Since when is it legal to force any American to join a
voluntary "insurance"
plan that is in reality nothing but another tax - especially when an
individual must apply
for a number that puts them into this taxing system?
An even bigger
question: Am I even eligible to obtain this number? This is a very
important legal question that seldom is raised about Title 42, the
so-called "The
Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits Program."
After a
thorough review of Section 405, it would appear there are only certain
classifications
of individuals who are legally eligible to apply. To be specific, see:
42 U.S.C. Section 405(c)(2)(B):
"(B)(i) In
carrying
out the Commissioner's duties under subparagraph (A) and
subparagraph (F), the Commissioner of Social Security shall take
affirmative
measures to assure that social security account numbers will,
to the maximum
extent practicable, be assigned to all members of appropriate
groups or categories
of individuals by assigning such numbers (or ascertaining that such
numbers have
already been assigned);
"(I) to aliens
at the time of their lawful admission to the United States either for
permanent residence or under other authority of law permitting them to
engage in
employment in the United States and to other aliens at such time as
their status is
so changed as to make it lawful for them to engage in such employment;
"(II) to any
individual who is an applicant for or recipient of benefits under
any program financed in whole or in part from Federal funds including
any child on
whose behalf such benefits are claimed by another person; and
"(III) to any
other
individual when it appears that he could have been but was not
assigned an account number under the provisions of sub clauses (I) or
(II) but only
after such investigation as is necessary to establish to the
satisfaction of the
Commissioner of Social Security, the identity of such individual, the
fact that an
account number has not already been assigned to such individual, and
the fact that
such individual is a citizen or a noncitizen who is not, because of his
alien status,
prohibited from engaging in employment; and, in carrying out such
duties, the
Commissioner of Social Security is authorized to take affirmative
measures to
assure the issuance of social security numbers;
"(IV) to or on
behalf of children who are below school age at the request of their
parents or guardians; and
"(V) to children
of
school age at the time of their first enrollment in school." We
find more government lie-speak and the obligation or duty to apply for
and
obtain a Social Security card or number at 20 C.F.R., section 422.103
(2002):
"(b) Applying for
a
number. (1) Form SS-5. An individual needing a social security
number may apply for one by filing a signed Form SS-5,
'Application for a Social
Security Card,' at any social security office and submitting the
required evidence...
"(2) Birth
Registration Document. The Social Security Administration (SSA) may
enter into an agreement with officials of a state...to establish, as
part of the official
birth registration process, a procedure to assist SSA in assigning
social security
numbers to newborn children. Where an agreement is in effect, a parent,
as part
of the official birth registration process, need not complete a Form
SS-5 and may
request that SSA assign a social security number to the newborn child.
Another (2): "(2)
Request on birth registration document. Where a parent has
requested a social security number for a newborn child as part of
an official birth
registration process described in paragraph (b)(2) of this section, the
State vital
statistics office will electronically transmit the request to
SSA's central office....
Using this information, SSA will assign a number to the child and send
the social
security number card to the child at the mother's address."
Today, parents are
being forced at hospitals all across this country to fill out
documentation to obtain an SSN for their baby before they are "allowed"
to take
their newborn home. What an outrage!
Every American has
the right to be fully informed of the law and the consequences
of entering into any agreement that binds them to a government program.
Forcing
a newborn, incapable of understanding anything other than life giving
functions such
as food and a clean diaper, or a teenager to enter into a supposedly
lifetime voluntary
taxing program for which they have no understanding, is reprehensible
and flies in
the face of all the principles of freedom and free choice that this
nation was founded upon.
Coming in Part II:
Why does the
government have to "find" money to meet social security payments
if there a so-called "trust fund"?
How the government
blackmails the states over funding using SSNs as their
sledgehammer.
Massive identity
theft and how the IRS promotes this crime. Why the system
can't be saved or fixed and the only fair and equitable solution.