A brief history

Way back in 1935 the Social Security Administration began issuing American citizens unique numbers that could be used to identify who was paying their Social Security dues, and thus who should benefit from it when they become of age. At that time it worked well for it's design purpose, but soon our Internal Revenue Service realized they needed a way to identify who is paying their taxes; and then other departments followed suit until we ended up in our current situation.

Today the social security number is used for identification at almost every large establishment and department of our govenment. This is not the intended purpose of the number, and we need to replace it.