Sales tax--certainly. Property tax? Possible I'm sure with lax or no enforcement, but there is generally all sorts of paperwork associated with owning property let's say.

So, the government is aware that they are collecting money linked to improper or fake social security numbers, and aren't bothering to check that out?

I'm referring to this line: Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the "earnings suspense file" — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus.

In other words--there is a paper trail pointing directly to employers who have employees with false social security numbers (a likely indication they not legal workers, although it could be an error), and are doing nothing about it.

That's interesting.

I followed your link and noticed another article by that same author--in regards to the health care issue.
Opening Paragraph: For several months now, the American people--as if exhorted by the ghost of William F. Buckley (no particular hero of mine)--have been standing athwart the Democratic agenda of socialized medicine, yelling, "Stop!" But President Barack Obama showed them the policy equivalent of the middle finger Wednesday night.

http://reason.org/news/show/presiden...-will-con.html

And the final Paragraph: Obama lambasted the critics who claim his reform plan amounts to a government takeover of the health care system. But the plan he laid out Wednesday night will control every aspect of the medical transaction. It will tell patients when, what and how much coverage they must buy; it will tell sellers when, what and how much coverage they must sell. This is not a government takeover of health care? Then Tony Soprano is just a decent, hard-working businessman.

KAM

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