>>If the government was all the interested in stopping this they could start by checking who the people paying in payroll taxes under invalid SSN numbers are. It is not like them to turn away money.
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>Yes, I agree, but whenever they try to get a little tougher there is a huge uproar from the public.

But you can't know whether that's the grassroot public reaction, or an organized effort backed (and instigated) by special interests. It's probably mixed, but I'd really like to know how much of that is gas and how much alcohol.