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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (3806)	1/11/2008 11:16:16 PM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 42652

You can as a trader. Income is not considered 'earned' (although I sure think it is), so no SS tax is due if you elect trader status on your tax return. I have not paid any SS in 15 years... John

To: TimF who wrote (3806)	1/11/2008 11:50:40 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"Maybe it should but social security didn't at least not in a practical sense (whether or not it is truly constitutional effectively it is because the courts have not struck it down)." I don't know that it could have survived a Constitutional challenge in a different era. I understand that FDR threatened to stack the courts and that the SCOTUS flinched. Was Social Security ever scrutinized under a Constitutional challenge?