To: Kirk © who wrote (32114 ) 5/14/2012 12:06:08 PM From: Wayners 2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to FDR was a con man. Did some reading over the weekend and found the Fleming v. Nestor Supreme Court case. Social Security and Medicare are income taxes, nothing more and nothing less. Social Security benefits and Medicare benefits are actually welfare programs since no money is earmarked for payouts. It's up to the Govt to decide how much and to whom to give that welfare and it can be withdrawn or rescinded at any time and it's 100% legal to do so. The Social Security Act has titles in it that include the word "insurance", but then when you read the footnotes in the law, it says that the titles have no effect on law and are thus meaningless propaganda. The actual law says it is a tax, an income tax. That is all these frauds are. From an article below: no property rights to their Social Security "contributions." Unlike private pension funds, which actually belong to workers, Americans have no legal claim on the money Uncle Sam theoretically salts away for their golden years. This startling news broke 39 years ago in the case of Fleming v. Nestor. Bulgarian immigrant Ephram Nestor was deported in 1956 for being a Communist in the 1930s. After Congress prohibited Social Security benefits for deportees in 1954, Nestor sued. He claimed title to his FICA tax payments between 1936 and 1955. The Supreme Court disagreed. As it ruled, "To engraft upon the Social Security system a concept of 'accrued property rights' would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever-changing conditions which it demands." This decision reflected the Court's precedent in Helvering v. Davis. In 1937, it ruled that Social Security taxes "are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way."
