Is it not the same thing as Canadian SIN?
I don't understand how can you lose it? It's just a number. If you forget it, you can login into CRA (Canadian IRS) website and see it there and you can print it if you want for some reason.
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Avoid paying taxes with this one weird trick
How do we convince sovereign citizens that by claiming, and then burning, all their 10 replacement cards, they get loopholes out of paying federal income taxes?
Give them a federally issued punch card and say after you lose 10 social security cards you get a free sub and chips combo
That's not the way it works.
Ummm have you ever seen Elon Muskβs social security card???? And how much tax does he pay???? Thatβs what I thought.
I would like to see Elon Musk's birth certificate. He shouldn't be president if he isn't a legal citizen.
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"Never try to argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and then win by experience."
Samuel Clemens
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Why. The hell. Are we supposed to keep sacred a piece of paper that only has 9 precious numbers we can't choose, but that will permanently identify us, that will deteriorate over time, we're not supposed to laminate or protect it, and we only have limited replacements!? So dumb...
Got rained on when I went to a new job about 10 years ago, had it in my wallet so they could copy it for new hire bs. The colors bled and the blue stained other parts of the card. I never got it replaced but seriously, it isn't even as durable as a dollar bill.
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Social security numbers need to be phased out. Such a ridiculous and outdated system.
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Iβm ordering three every year until I have all 11, then Iβm gonna keel over in anxiety.
We should have a new rule: He/She who holds all 11 Social Security cards at age 35, without losing any of them, get a chance to become US president for 8 years, immune to impeachments. Every 8 years, all holders of all 11 Social Security cards between the age of 35 and 43 get locked in a room with all their cards and there will be a fight to see who can steal the most Social Security cards while keeping all their 11.
Whoever lose all their cards have to be punished: They will have to work at the IRS for the rest of their life (well unless they get too old, then they can get to leave). π
This is definitely better than the electoral college.
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so if you want to ruin someones life, just steal their social security card 10 times?
I mean... you could just falsely accuse them of being a terrorist. π€·ββοΈ
You could just falsely accuse them of being an immigrant.
It's a legit fear I have going to a protest as a Latino. They say don't take IDs with you to protests. Bruh, I'm taking my US Passport so I don't get deported to Guantanamo. No guarantee that will work either.
They say donβt take IDs with you to protests.
The point is don't lose it in the protest so it gets you identified.
But if you are an at-risk minority group, of course you bring it. Better risk getting identified than getting (unconstitutionally) deported.
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Ruh roh... I can't even remember how many times I've had it replaced. π¨
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But I have good news for you, I heard that they are dismantling the IRS ππ
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might need to respawn
Haha, dammit I snorted. Fine, enjoy the upvote
40+ years, and I'm still on number one. I laminated mine, because I'm a rebel that way.
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How many times until they catch the cocksuckers that keep stealing them then?
At 44, I'm pretty sure it's been stolen ten times.
Or better yet, unfuck the system that requires us to have the damned things?
Where are you keeping your social security card that it keeps getting stolen? Is it in your wallet or in your house somewhere and your getting broken into a whole bunch?
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I donβt get it. Is a social secuirty thingy the same as what National IDβs are for in other countries?
Very explicitly no, but it's the closest thing so we use it as though it were. It's supposed to be your identifier for our national pension program and nothing more. But any time we propose a national id for benefits and general ease of use purposes people lose their shit, despite often not being the people protesting the existence of the nsa or the patriot act.
It's not supposed to be an identifier, but since it's the only nationally-assigned designation all citizens get it's treated like one.
Which is stupid. It's incredibly insecure, vitally important, leaked to every bad actor on the planet already, and unchangeable when it gets compromised (which it has been).
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Yes, but in that typically bonkers American way you also have to keep it secret (so nobody can steal your identity), while at the same time revealing it to every Tom, Dick and Harry every time you have to prove your identity.
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Yes, sort of, but in a stupid way. The number is treated as a unique identifier of a person, but you don't carry it around since it's so insecure.
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