The Unknown History Of Social Security

The Unknown History of Social Security and the Social Security Card Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT By Dick Kantenberger Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION,” was removed. Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He made the following promises: 1. Participation in the Program would be completely voluntary. This is no longer the case. 2. Employees and employers would only have to pay 2% of the first $3000 of an employee’s annual income for a total of $60 per year. The employee (4.2 percent through the end of 2012)/employer rate (6.2 percent) is now 10.4 percent on the first $110,000 earned. 3. The money the participants elected to put into the program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year. Social Security is no longer tax deductible. 4. The money the participants put in would go into an independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other government programs. Under Lyndon Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent. 5. The annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income. Under Clinton and Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed. Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following: Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it? A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate. Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding? A: The Democratic Party. Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities? A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US. Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants? A: Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it! After violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats have accused Republicans of wanting to take away your Social Security. And the worst part is uninformed citizens believe it!