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Yep. I have tried relaying the fact that I don't have any children, but they still want my number. . . JUST IN CASE I may father a child in the future and JUST IN CASE I may not support that child.

I suppose they could also ask for my number JUST IN CASE I rob a bank in the future. Makes just as much sense.

These "conservatives" who are all for it, don't realize that a multitude of bureacrats now have access to as much personal financial information -- about them -- as they desire. They think it's only for those other guys; you know, "them," the "deadbeats." They've never had the experience of living in an actual socialist country as I have -- so they don't recognize that the US has within the past decade made the transition. This is exactly what they do, and one of the practical differences that are not allowed under the US Constitution. But they did it anyway.

They think it's only for those other guys

Yes. But then they have to track all of us so they can distinguish us from "the other guys".