IRS 1987 Incident

I am in the midst of reading Freakonomics

This is an interesting twist to regular economics. One funny thing I read was about 7 Million American children missing in 1987

Don’t get startled :-) what happened was in 1987 IRS introduced a new rule that every child who is being claimed in the tax returns should have their SSN number. So actually people had kids who did not exist. So come April 15th there were 7 million kids missing from the Tax returns