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I wouldn't accept one either....religious reasons.
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What if they told you that you would get a citizens dividend every year of several thousand dollars if you took one. Strictly voluntary of course, but if you don't get one, you lose your job, your bank account, stores no longer take cash so you can't buy anything (except through illegal barter). Sound far fetched? When social security was introduced a lot of religious people objected on the grounds that they didn't want to have an identification number. To assuage those fears, the government promised that the ssn would
never be used for identification and they even took the further step of printing on the social security card, "Not to be used for identification purposes". That was removed in the late 70's when everyone had forgotten about being concerned about having an id #. Now you can't get a job, a drivers license, a bank account without one and if you renounce your social security number, you will be fired, lose your license and your bank account will be closed. It happened to a friend of mine, who opted out of the "voluntary" system. Another interesting fact in the equation, the company who makes the chips has built a factory in China with the capacity to produce 3 billion chips per year.