How you can resist funding the government → a survey of tactics of historical tax resistance campaigns → manufacture & sell alternatives to taxed goods → underground economy → working without a Social Security number

I recently rediscovered Claire Wolfe’s 2003 article Yes, You Can Work Without a Social Security Number. Wolfe writes about the benefits and challenges of trying to do without what has become the default key by which Americans are known to databases large and small, governmental and video rental.

Learning how to navigate this process can be important for people who want to work in the underground economy or avoid IRS levies.