|
Posted by VTR on January 14, 2008, 12:38 am
Please log in for more thread options
claiming the
# same child.
#
# The requirement means that, for the first time, large numbers of children
# who have not reached employment age will need Social Security numbers.
#
# Its use has been expanding the past fifteen years by regulations under
# the Bank Secrecy Act, requiring all bank account holders to be enumerated,
# and by the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 and subsequent legislation
# requiring children who receive public assistance to be enumerated.
#
# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, April 1990 issue
#
# State legislatures are forced to enact legislation by November requiring
# all parents to provide their Social Security numbers before a birth
# certificate will be issued for a newborn.
#
# The Family Support Act of 1988 forces a state to forfeit a portion of
# federal funds if it does not impose the requirement, which is intended
# to lead parents to believe the government will be able to chase them
# down later if they do not support their children.
#
# Ontario, Canada: Each newborn infant will now receive an ID number at
# birth and a plastic ID card to go with it.
#
# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, September 1991 issue
#
# A California taxpayer has successfully filed a tax return without
# providing Social Security numbers for her three children, as required
# by a 1986 federal law, but the IRS is quite happy if nobody knows about
# the case.
#
# The woman claims that the enumeration is a violation of her religious
# beliefs. Like many fundamental Christians, she relies on a Biblical
# passage warning that whoever worships a Satanic beast that issues a mark
# OR NUMBER to all persons will incur the wrath of God.
#
# Initially, the IRS
|