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Feds didn't have power to enact laws on individual citizens, so they enacted a law on citizens to convert them to corporations? Puzzled.
by ryanhuff 8y ago
Feds didn't have power to enact laws on individual citizens, so they enacted a law on citizens to convert them to corporations? Puzzled.
- volak 8y agoCitizens apply to SSN and a corporation is created for them - they are not forced to apply for one. Even to this day you can have a baby and not apply to SSN (increasing a good idea given the state of the program)
- crooked-v 8y agoNot applying for a SSN doesn't remove the requirement to pay FICA taxes. There's only a specific list of allowed exemptions.
- habnds 8y agoyeah actually, it isn't a conspiracy theory but more like cultural critical theory, the book Seeing Like a State, is a great read about how the state works to transform the natural world into a world that can be quantified and managed by bureaucracy. One of it's most interesting examples is how early modern governments reformed agricultural practices, not to raise productivity levels but to make them more easily measured and therefore taxed.