[templar]

there are 1,541 individuals and businesses who owe more than $20,000 each in overdue income taxes. The list of their tax identification numbers ...

Pay up or have your name, address, and SS# published on the internet. That'll teach 'em.

[Eala]

Pay up or have your name, address, and SS# published on the internet. That'll teach 'em.

Pay up or be subject to identity theft. Nice.

[PatrioticAmerican]

The issue is that the state's records are notoriously innaccurate. I deal primarily with the state government computer systems and know very well that all of these systems have serious problems.

Innocent people will be branded as tax cheats.

If the state wants to get their money, they have the courts to do that. Why the publications? That would seem slanderous and a grudge, not a respectable method of tax collection.

Fact is, if they know who is cheating, enough to publish their names, then they have enough to prosecute.