This is brilliant!
No, not the way this story is described, but the whole concept.
Are you aware if FOIA exists in all states? or just Illinois?
The wooden stake to drive through the bureaucracy has just been discovered. The silver bullet.
Awaiting your response with much excitement...
It started in New York. Collecting taxes from smokers who, to avoid the high taxes, bought cigarettes off of the Internet.
Now, smokers in Illinois and Michigan are being turned in as well. But now, these people are getting very mad and are writing letters and not just turning over their money out of fear.
They are making the government account for what they are doing, and not just taking them at their word.