The Social Security Swindle - How Anyone Can Drop Out

by Irwin A. Schiff

Argues that the social security system is illegal and a poor economic and social policy, and provides information on dropping out of the system

Unknown Binding

First published February 1, 1984

About the author

American anti-income tax activist. In 1950, Schiff graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and economics.

He has lost several civil cases against the federal government and has a record of multiple convictions for various federal tax crimes. Schiff is serving a 13-plus year sentence for tax crimes

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel tremendous sympathy for this author for the thousands of hours he must have spent poring over the tax code, looking for inconsistencies, fictions, falsehoods and other legal avenues to avoid paying taxes--none of which ever mattered from the practical standpoint of the IRS's real-world enforcement powers. His entire quest, in this book and in his others, is quixotic and pointless.

Thus you'd be a fool or insane to follow any of the specific steps or advice in this book. At best, you'll be laughed out of your company's HR office; at worst you'll be thrown in jail. D... [see the rest on my book review site.]