BushMaster-15
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My SS card says right on it "for social security and tax purposes - not for identification".
Then again, it was issued in the 50's. The replacement my wife got a few years back looks totally different and doesn't have that on it.
When You and I got our cards ,they weren't peddling any old # , as they were issued State specific per Era or year and SS wasn't a social welfare benefit ,as it is Now !.
SS started out as a working persons supplemental retirement program. Aug. 1934 and amended periodically there after .
Certain unmentionable less than stellar people ,who also stole SS funds to be placed into the General fund ,so as to " PAY " for the undeclared VN war that congress wouldn't fund . That was the beginning of the downfall of citizen SS participation and later as we ALL realized in Horror , were Dbl; Taxed on those retirement benefits to boot . Below a small exert ,which is laughable .
To finance this substantial benefit increase and other program improvements, the 1950 amendments increased the contribution and benefit base (the amount of annual wages subject to Social Security taxes and creditable for benefits) from $3,000 to $3,600 and provided a revised schedule of gradually increasing tax rates for employers, employees, and the newly covered self-employed. The new law also repealed a never-used provision which authorized appropriations to the program from general revenues if they were needed. These changes made clear the Congress' rejection of Federal general revenues as a major source of Social Security financing and underscored its view that Social Security should be self-supporting in both the short range and the long range.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/50mm2.html
Yet when the Gov. wanted illegal monies they had NO problem STEALING SS monies from the then Solvent SS system . Now the 1 St. thing they threaten us with is , withholding SS benefits on Gov. shut downs . Why aren't Welfare recipients or Gov. employees threatened