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Here is the best read I have found to explain. https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/powe...
What I have done is to start and maintain a business for more than 30 years to avoid taxes as best I can. Also, I purchased my folks house outright well in advance of their passing that taxation and hardship might be minimized for them. Selfishly, I shall have rental property with no financial load other than property tax after they are gone.
What angers me most is that I was entered into a contract without my adult understanding and acceptance of the terms offered. Without this program, or anything of likeness, people would be forced to think and act as if there were no safety net. I was fortunate enough to learn the basics in my 20's. Now in my latter 50's, my planning has come to fruition.
These "safety nets" are damnable traps for everyone.
From the outset, it looks like a left-biased article blaming the right for everything under the sun. He supports his "position" with left-biased articles from people who worked in Democrat administrations or were life-long bureaucrats.
I admit, I could not read past the first couple of pages of the article because the bias was so obvious.
I wouldn't trust a sociologist from U oF KA with anything, certainly not an un-biased history of ss.
He comes from, what he calls the most left city in America. Notwithstanding, and reading deeper in, Domhoff does explain very critically the interactions of the Power Elite and the Corporatists in the formation of SSA.
When I have time I will read more.
I started going deep into this a month ago. I might not agree with some, yet the history and insight is very precise and laid out in simple language.
This was compelling enough to put a crowbar in my wallet and buy his 2020 publication: The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century. I'm about 150 of 650 pages in. This really clarifies a lot of the developments in the culture of Elitists regardless political party...and how these things "exchange places" for class dominations.
Insightful and sickening that the ignorance of the populace allows such intrusion.
That's the truth of social security. ;^)
I did not have a SSN until I was 11. My folks wanted me to have a saving account with a bank. I would have been free if not for their benevolent ignorance.
https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0...
A friend of mine went through an extrication process from SSA. It took about 2-1/2 years of multiple filings and a lot of waiting. Afterwards all he did was to file a tax statement of non-participation/exemption, for lack of better words at present, with the Feds, Subsequently he owed the State nothing as well. He worked within mortgage underwriting for Bank of America at the time....mid-2000's. Originally only Federal employees were required to file tax docs. When the banking system was Federalized...2009?...he became a Fed employee and all his effort went to $#%^!!!
Not long afterward his first daughter was born. About a month after her birth he received a letter from SSA addressed to her, confirming her enrollment in the "program". Denny hit the roof! He had expressly marked and signed her birth record declining enrollment. He told the hospital admin they had better retract and expunge the record or they were going to court. He had piles of docs and records to throw against any potential of defense they may raise and a clear threat of "I'll own your institution if you don't correct the intrusion". His expression may have been a little verbose but conveyed enough legitimate aggression that a lot of heads may roll if they did not capitulate. This would have been a kick-ass case to get to the Supreme Court if for nothing but public awareness.