Gov Huntsman’s Admin Ok with Taxes For Identity Thieves
Filed under: State Government, Taxation, Illegal Immigration, Identity Theft — utahrattler @ 6:26 am
This deals with both illegal immigrant identity theft and general social security number only identity theft by fugitives etc. CitizensForTaxFairness.org is still pursuing this issue and needs your help to convince the Huntsman
administration that cheap labor is not worth letting your taxes go to those stealing children’s identities (especially, fugitive pedophiles).

I was able to get a couple of statements from Huntsman’s head of purchasing (Mr. Douglas Richins). I’ll excerpt the pertinent bits. The first is an e-mail sent to the chair of a key legislative committee (PDF) regarding a proposed law (HB 127) to require government contractors who receive taxpayer funds to verify the social security numbers of their new hires:

1. Potential suppliers/contractors will withdraw from doing business with the state because of the requirements of subscribing to this “voluntary federal programâ€