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Fifty dollars! Wow, that is draconian. Employers must be really shaking in their boots over the prospect of a $50 fine. No wonder the crackdown is so "silent."

I think that there's another way of looking at it. Chances are that a business that fabricates false SocSec numbers for illegal alien employees is doing other fraudulent cr*p as well.

The IRS is the new version of the Spanish Inquistion -- you don't want them to even notice you, let alone be inclined to pull on the latex gloves for the old financial anal exam.

That $50 may be small, but it does serve as a warning that "SURPRISE!!! You're now on the IRS's radar ... better start practicing grabbing your ankles from a standing position."

At the very least, even if a business ISN'T doing anything illegal, the costs of working through an audit that results in exoneration would push that $50 higher by a magnitude or few.