My suggestions, make this big enough one of the networks (fox) pick it up. This is too good to be on the blogosphere. A lot of good angles, Brian Simpson.

If there was any doubt as to how the parasites in local, state and federal government view the public, this should clear things up.

These are mob tactics…although there is very little distinuguishing the M.O. of the goverment from the mob these days.

maxing it out in Vegas, then sending a few thugs over to your house to make you pay the bill.

If they already know who you are, shouldn’t they just send you a bill?

Just saying,

Brian O’Connor
http://www.RedDogReport.com

morons… also one more reason to hate the politics as usual by both parties in this state…

As to, why don’t the send a letter? They do. Many times. In the case of back taxes they send several. I’ve been called in on late property tax issues to track down people after attempts by regular mail, then certified mail, then sheriff’s attmepting process did not pan out. I generally get the papers after the 3rd year in arrears.

Once they do decide to pay their tax, they end up not only with interest and penalty but also the sheriff’s dept. attempt at serve and then my serve fee. With the PA spot, sounds like they’re getting off light.

The feeling I get from the spot is that its wayback taxes. Now, they could go through the courts and garnish ‘Tom’s’ wages or get some other default judgement from the court. They obviously don’t want to do that and rather give Tom the chance to handle his obligation. Not every govenrment is going to hire a pi to locate and/or serve but it keeps names from being posted in papers and prevents lengthy court entanglements.

This ad is an attention getter.

It has already paid off quite handsomely. Eliminating or reducing interest and penalties for failure to pay taxes owed if they are paid within this time frame.
It’s getting folks who owe little enough that going after them would cost more than it would get out of them.

The Ads for it, however, this one and the ones on the radio…
Well, they make me want to say, “Come and get it.”

PA along with most other states and the Fed have rules about what can and can’t be used to collect debt. I don’t think it is funny. I think it coarsens our culture and is a waste of money.

What is wrong with publishing the names, broadcasting them , using shame?

How come it is that they can’t seem to find the REAL tax cheats like … ohhh I dunno … Charlies Rengel and a bunch of those Obama buddies who owe not a few thousands but … HUNDREDS of Thousands or … MILLIONS? I mean, really these folks are on TV almost every week and you can find them strolling through the Halls Of Power in DC regularly. As they are Civil Servants we should know where they are all the time.

Can you imagine an ad that says, “Hey Miguel, we do know who you are.”

This threat is a more ‘honest’ shakedown than other such operations. All the thuggery imaginable behind the threats in this Orwellian advertisement, and more, are already being carried out in Maine. At least PA openly reveals its mentality and possibly operates within some kinds of limits.

Maine Revenue Services shakes down innocent people who don’t even own the taxes. MRS is going back at least as far as 13 years demanding ‘proof’ of taxes paid under new ‘interpretations’ retroactively changing tax policy without legislative approval. It imposes ‘estimated’ taxes and punitive double-digit ‘interest’ plus ‘penalties’ doubling the take on transactions that never occurred. It threatens to seize property worth far more than the alleged tax, also intimidates people with the false claim that they have no right to appeal (not that an objective hearing is possible), deliberately runs up legal costs with abusive litigation tactics, demands under state law that the victim must prove his innocence, maintains and operates off an ‘enemies list’, smears victims who dare to contest or speak out against the agency, and stonewalls state senators investigating complaints of abuse. A specialty is bullying non-residents under a strategy called “exporting taxes”. See http://MaineTaxAbuse.org.

This state-sponsored organized crime is in addition to Maine’s extraordinary high taxes that long ago killed the economy and drove out most industry. Maine doesn’t need to advertise its threats like PA does — the legislature keeps giving MRS more money to hire more enforcers, in the name of ‘compliance’, in a panicky attempt to close enormous budget gaps. Taxes and controls under non-objective law imposed at the ‘discretion’ of agency bureaucrats have turned Maine into a third world country, with everything that implies about abuse of civil rights.