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To: RetiredNow who wrote (16159)	4/5/2010 8:36:03 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

True, but since you have in the neighborhood of 100 million (I didn't actually look up the number, I'm going by vague memory, but if it was half or double that it wouldn't change the point) the corner cases are still represent a lot of work. So you will have to hire people to do the work. And that's just to identify who really hasn't paid. Then you have to enforce payment against those who did not pay. If you have powers and penalties like the IRS than you can get pretty good compliance, but then the statement about hiring more IRS agents would if not literally true, at least be representative of the impact of the enforcement effort. If you go very soft an enforcement than the statement was too strong, but then more and more people will be likely to not pay as they see some get away with it.