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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: SS numbers
Message-ID: <4268@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 22 May 89 19:04:24 GMT
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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  SS Numbers were also originally intended to be for SS and/or
income tax purposes only.  Cards not *that* long ago (early
1960s) even declared,

   "For tax purposes only - not to be used for identification."

  That's totally changed.  Now everybody *demands* it -- and,
even when you open up a *non-interest bearing* checking account,
the bank is required to tell the Income Robbery Syndicate if
you refuse to give your SS number.

  Also, I once had a credit company tell me that they could not
get my credit record without my SS number -- altho just a few
days before, I had eyewitnessed another firm do so!  I told them
that, and they maintained their story.

  So, the promise that the SS number would not become and ID
joins a long list of government promises to bite the dust.   Me,
I quite believing the little twits in Washington *long* ago.

Jeff Daiell

P. S.  Some States ask for it when you register to vote.
       Just Say No.


-- 
  If a hungry man has water, and a thirsty man has bread,
  Then if they trade, be not dismayed, they both come out ahead.

                                   -- Don Paarlberg