From FOX News (so you know it's true!), a 23-year-old librarian was busted for being in the United States illegally when she was caught using the social security number of a dead person.
Now she's young, and it's no surprise that she was able to get through elementary school and high school without anyone checking her data. But she also got through some college, I'm guessing. And since the story says she's a librarian, she probably applied to a human resources department in some county or city or school system which submitted her SSN to the IRS who started taking out taxes, and still nobody noticed that she'd died twenty years earlier.
I wonder what happens when you pay forty years of taxes into the account of a dead person. Do you lose all that money because you're already dead? Right now everyone is worried that the social security system will dry up in this country because we will soon have more people taking money out than we'll have putting in.
So is this the plan to save social security? Does the IRS turn a blind eye to illegals using dead SSN numbers so that all those tax payments can go into one big pot to be used to sustain the current pay-outs? How hard is it to punch a few buttons and have all the SSN numbers of every dead person print out to a spreadsheet? What if the numbers are in the thousands, or tens of thousands, or even more?
Hmm, the United States of America is using illegal immigrants to keep our social security system afloat... I like it. The next time I'm at work trying to get the non-English speaker to understand what I'm saying by repeating the exact same words over and over, but slower and louder and drawing pictures in the air with my finger until he puts his cell phone away, I won't get angry. I will thank him for supporting my retirement.
