Posted by
Arnie on Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:45:53 AM
"About 170,000 Wisconsin state tax booklets were mailed out with the recipients' Social Security numbers on the address label." Now how can this happen? And the democrat state rep said: "Somebody must have screwed up."
It goes from a heart warming story of our great military (previous post) to people in the government just not doing their job properly.
Tax mailing has Social Security number visible "Revenue officials
haven't determined whether the inadvertent disclosure violates any state law or regulation". If these Revenue people do not know that, they should be fired and the person who allowed this to happen should be fired immediately. Oh, there may be loophole in their somewhere. Oh yes, it's the printers fault, the fault of the private company that applied the labels. And where does the printer get the information to put on the labels? From the Revenue department, who else. But, they are not looking within for blame. No, No, that might just harm their public image, so blame it on the printer.
How do you think the media would treat this if it was Wal-Mart sending out material with your debit card number printed on the outside for everyone to see ?
"Many people
want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to
protect the consumer from the government." - Milton Friedman