Recently there was a thread about opening a bank account w/o a SSN. It inspired me to go back and do something I've been meaning to do for a while now, and give the George Gordon lectures on Social Security a more serious study.
The lectures are available here:
http://www.georgegordon.org/A/P/0114a-32.mp3
http://www.georgegordon.org/A/P/0114b-32.mp3
http://www.georgegordon.org/A/P/0114c-32.mp3
http://www.georgegordon.org/A/P/0114d-32.mp3
http://www.georgegordon.org/A/P/0114e-32.mp3
http://www.georgegordon.org/A/P/0114f-32.mp3
http://www.georgegordon.org/A/P/0114g-32.mp3
http://db.georgegordon.com/index.php?yr=2005
What I'm going to do here is post my notes from the lectures. Not that I agree w/ everything herein, not that I've researched everything herein, etc.. but I thought it's worth posting and debating and considering what Gordon has to say on the subject.
So here goes... what follows is in brief, "notes" format (i.e., non-complete sentences). In particular, the legal cites and references were taken down by hand; there may be typos and misspellings in them:
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SS is the "Third Rail" of politics (Tip O'Neil)
It's been around since 1935 when it was created by the New Deal administration of FDR
Fact about SS:
* It's a pay-as-you-go program
* It's a Ponzi scheme
* It's not self-sustaining
* Ultimately, it will collapse
* Mathematically it cannot go on forever
* However, Ponzi schemes can go on for a long time
14 million people in the US (about 5%) do not participate in Social Security. Examples include:
* Amish
* Mennonites
* The aristocratic intelligensia (Rockefellers, Morgans, Harrimans, etc)
SS is a voluntary program
You have to
volunteer for SS to become a taxpayer under Title 26.
If you don't want SS, what to do?
Why would you want to avoid something so universally accepted?
What are the benefits of SS?
* You are paying 16.1% of everything you produce into SS
* Then you qualify for the income tax, which takes another minimum of 17%
* That's already 1/3 of everything you make, just b/c you voluntarily want to participate in SS
SS is a license, you have to have this license (i.e., number) to work
Many people think "it's the law" (it's not really)
* The State may require private individuals to obtain a State-created franchise -- such as a license -- to work for the State or any of its corporate creations.
* A corporation, which is a creature of the State, can be compelled to require a prospective employee to possess an SSN
* SSN is evidence of a State-created franchise
* They can do this prior to hiring you, the applicant, for the job
* This is because an individual has no common-law right to work for a corporation.
* Working for a corporation is a privilege, granted by the State
* Corporations are a creature of the civil law
* Corporations don't come from the common law, they don't come from Moses or the Scripture or the common law of King Alfred the Great.
* The common law does not recognize corporations created under the civil law jurisidction.
* Corporations are juristic State-created persons.
* Under corporate law, the creator of the Corporation -- that is, the State -- can demand anything it desires from its creations, such as regulation by statute and taxation.
* The State can even destroy a corporation by use of taxation (Enoch v. Williams, 370, 1).
* Just as a State employee must obtain a SSN and pay an income tax on the privilege of working for the State, the individual freeman -- who is otherwise enfranchised -- must admit to enfranchisement to work for the State or one of the State's corporations.
* Those people who have applied for and received a SSN have applied for and received a privilege from government for which an excise tax can be levied.
* The income tax is an excise tax, it's a "privilege" tax
* Proof of participation is the SS account number;
* The SSN is a quasi-license, it's a contract to work, for all of those who want to work for the State or for one of its corporations.
* The SSH has the effect of extending the State franchise to the employee
* Participation in the SS welfare system, as well as the privilege to receive entitlements such as unemployments, food stamps, are Congressionally-granted benefits, they accrue to participants in the program.
* If you are not a holder of an SSN, you can't get unemployment insurance, you can't get welfare, food stamps, aid to families w/ dependent children.
* Any privilege granted by government is a proper subject for taxation.
* The benefits are in effect subsidies of certain privileges, such as minimum wage, unemployment and compensation benefits.
* There are 108 benefits provided under the Social Security program.
* The costs of these benefits can be levied upon such privileges as an indirect or excise tax.
* Since the corporation is nothing more than an extension of the tate, its employees (i.e., the employees of the corporation who are employees of the State, or employees of the State) can be forced to voluntarily (<- wording is Gordon's but note the DoubleThink) obtain a SSN as a federal license to work for a corporation and franchise. You can see that in the U.S. v. Flora (362 US 145).
* You can be forced to voluntarily (<- wording is Gordon's but note the DoubleThink) accept and use Federal Reserve Notes in payment of that consideration of just compensation of the debt arising between the employer, the corporation and the Federal government.
* You can be required to pay the federal tax debt arising from this franchise in Federal Reserve Notes.
* You can be compelled to provide information, and file a return, and file an IRS W-4 form upon employment which is a contract of franchise, an expectation and a promise of payment of the tax due at year's end.
OK.. pretty substanial brain dump.
More coming soon..
