Reply #52: The crime is that one who wishes to make an honest living has to "steal" a number... [View All]

to simply be able to support family and survive in this "melting pot" nation of ours.

And the other major crime is that the millions in tax dollars that those sort of hard-working individuals pay into our government coffers, yearly, continues to grow into a staggering amount that will never benefit the ones whose labor and sweat largely funded the "Earnings Suspense File" which the SSA maintains as their secret stash.



Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/05immigration.html

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Starting in the late 1980's, the Social Security Administration received a flood of W-2 earnings reports with incorrect - sometimes simply fictitious - Social Security numbers. It stashed them in what it calls the "earnings suspense file" in the hope that someday it would figure out whom they belonged to.

The file has been mushrooming ever since: $189 billion worth of wages ended up recorded in the suspense file over the 1990's, two and a half times the amount of the 1980's.

In the current decade, the file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year, generating $6 billion to $7 billion in Social Security tax revenue and about $1.5 billion in Medicare taxes.