Secret America LIVE - Episode 75 - Interview w/ Eric Burlison - The Truth is out [15:30-20:33]

We should be able to opt out of those Social Security. We should be able to opt out of having to pay taxes for the Social Security and just spend for ourselves if we want to. I absolutely, I totally agree, because frankly, the Social Security system is, is a really crappy pension system. I mean, like the worst. And Matt, I mean, would you, would you trust a politician to invest your money? I wouldn't trust a politician for anything, walk my dog, you know. No, I mean, like, I, this notion that, that, that politicians somehow can manage funds better than, I don't know, a money management firm, or that, that it's just absurd. And so what we end up with is like all things the government does is mediocrity and, and a crappy product and one that's not accountable to the people. And so that's the system that we have. It was originally calculated. It was set up so that the amount that was going in could, and the average, I'm sorry, life expectancy was around 60 years old. Yeah. That that system was created today. It's more like 80 in the mid 80s. I hope everybody would die before they had to pay for it. That's right. That they would most, so when it was set up, it was set up so that if you live longer than it then expected, then you could have funds available. That's not the case today. And we had no say in it. That's the thing. They can tax us, you know, it's funny because I talked to James about this sometimes. Okay, so our country was basically started because of taxes, right, because of the British taxes on tea that basically started the whole thing, right. But then a hundred years later, however long it is, Congress puts in a provision in the constitution that says they can tax us as much as they want. Yeah, in the third, in the 16th amendment. Yeah. The irony is unbelievable here. Have you ever looked into that, Eric, because you think there's any truth that there wasn't a quorum when that was ratified? Oh, I've heard about this. Yeah. I have to check back. It's been quite sometimes since I've heard this theory. But like, I think that at one point in time, it might have been almost 15 plus years ago, maybe maybe close to 20 years ago. I got a, I got it, somebody handed me a copy of a DVD. And it was called, I think it's called loose change. Oh, yeah. James James has told me about that many times. 9-11. So it first started about the first part of it. It correct me if I'm wrong. And maybe if people on the internet want to correct me, it's fine. I think the first part of it starts is talking about how the income tax system was, is not exactly what was passed or ratified by the states. It income at that time was somewhat similar to what we would call capital gains tax today. It wasn't your wages. It wasn't your right. Right. And that kind of evolved to end up becoming people's wages. And people have tried to challenge that. It's never gone, you know, worked its way through the courts. But at least, you know, and I'm not saying that this is accurate. I'm just saying that I wrote. That was a documentary that I remember watching almost 20 years ago. Well, let me ask you a follow up about Social Security and taxes. This is something that has drive me nuts and I'll try and be concise. Many years ago, Eric, I had an employee named Portofetial Dominguez. He was a dishwasher. He was from Mexico. He was awesome. Now, at the time, Reagan's, I think it was an 86 immigration act had passed. So I had to fill out and not what's called an I nine form. I know you're aware of that and people they take a picture of your driver's life. Social Security card. That was because of Reagan's law to and Reagan said, OK, we're going to give amnesty to all these people. It'll never happen again because we're going to pass this law that as an employer, you have to get an I nine film for that. So Portofetial was having trouble with these taxes. I called the Social Security Administration on the phone. I said, this guy's having issues. What's the deal? She goes, sir, that Social Security number is to a woman, not a man. So in my broken Spanish, I got the truth from Portofetial. He said everybody that comes across the border buys a black market Social Security. Now it's a real number. But it's a card. However, 20 million, 30 million immigrants that are working in America right now, Eric, almost all of them are working with forged documents.