[gridlock]

Did they ever get anywhere with this? (opting out of Social Security)

If they did, I gotta start working on my Rector to get us signed up. Lets face it, if you took the money you now dump into Social Security and instead put it into a collective run by your Church, you could have better benefits, more security, and enough money left over to run the whole operation and buy the Rector a Cadillac every year!

[f.Christian]

This is going to prove evolution right because the smarts ones will use eelektricity and the less fittest will freeze to death !

[Grit]

"Tucked into the 138 page bill was a clause exempting the Old Order Amish, and any other religious sect who conscientiously objected to insurance, from paying Social Security payments, providing that sect had been in existence since December 31, 1950.

After Senate approval in July, the signing of the bill by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 13, 1965, made it official and canceled tax accounts of some 15,000 Amish people amounting to nearly $250,000."