Comment: From a Historical Perspective :

This "security" idea's been around a loooong time.

From : Common Law Social Security/

Believe it or not, a type of social security was established in England by the Statute of Charitable Uses (43 Eliz. c. 4, 1601). In this Statute you will find every description that your social security number covers, and everything your income tax pays for.

A. "whereas lands, tenements, rents, annuities, profits, hereditament, goods, chattels, money and stocks of money have been heretofore given, limited, appointed and assigned, as well by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, and her most noble progenitors, as by sundry other well-disposed person; some for relief of aged, impotent and poor people, some for maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools and scholars in universities, some for repair of bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks and HIGHWAYS, some for education and preferment of orphans, some for or toward relief, stock or maintenance for houses of correction, some for marriages of poor maids, some for supportation, aid and help of young tradesmen, handicraftsmen and persons decayed, and others for relief or redemption of prisoners or captives, and for aid or ease of any poor inhabitants concerning payments of fifteens, setting out of soldiers and OTHER TAXES ...***...

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These Trusts defined in the Statute of Charitable Uses are either eleemosynary or governmental trusts and it is highly apparent to me that it is this Statute from which the United States Government drew its authority to create the Social Security Act with the support of the income tax. After all just where does your tax dollars go? To the above. And doesn't all the above require a number?

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