[BeerSwillr]

How can social security taxes, that illegal immigrants supposedly payed, be protected? Are these funds not credited to accounts that legally belong to someone? I'm sure that a large portion are. So what is the government going to do? I guess we'll get a glimpse later this week.

I dread this announcment. Nothing good can come of it.

[oceanview]

we asked that question earlier, no one seems to know if they just make up a number that belongs to a "real person" and therefore pay into their account, or whether the number is totally false and the funds just collect in some kind of dead account.

i'm not sure how they can work it out without de-facto giving them some kind of legal standing; i.e, real SS numbers assigned to them, or some other kind of "guest worker taxpayer ID".

but its true, the best thing to do would just be to leave the status quo alone, as bad as that is.