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Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers
rocketjam writes "The Boston Globe reports that the Massachusetts state Revenue Department has launched a new technology offensive which strives to piece together all the stray bits of financial information about individual taxpayers that is contained in various public databases in order to catch tax cheats. The databases have been around for years, but technology has only recently enabled the state to assemble and review the information in a time-efficient manner. The so-called 'Discovery' initiative is already bringing in an additional $1 million a week. While denying the state is playing 'Big Brother', the Revenue Department Commissioner, Alan LeBovidge predicted the state may eventually be able to track so much financial information on individuals that the state could complete the citizens' returns for them."
I agree! I just wish their system would branch into the other government systems and do some cross checking.
Here's something that Massachusetts could do that would probably solve alot of financial problems.
1. Go through the welfare system and evaluate every person on the roles. Find the people cheating the system and exact from them their ill gains. People who have no intention of getting a job and just want to clamp onto the tit that is the welfare system should be tossed out in the street (in front of an MBTA bus)
2. Agressively prosecute medicare fraud.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
More people die from having no medical care in the US than die from the tax rate at the poverty line. Guess what poor people, if you don't like paying taxes spend 1 hour every 4 years to vote. Guess what dumb americans if you didn't have a big dumb army to invade other countries you could save 50% of your tax bill.