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Imagine for a moment that a private enterprise did something similar. Let's say that AT&T decided it would be funny to run an ad similar to this targeting thei
by spking 17y ago
Imagine for a moment that a private enterprise did something similar. Let's say that AT&T decided it would be funny to run an ad similar to this targeting their delinquent customers. Imagine the (totally appropriate) outrage that would ensue.
It's great that the state is offering penalty amnesty, but this was just a terrible way to do it. Were I a PA resident, I'd be incensed.
- tptacek 17y agoThere's a huge difference between a commercial creditor in line to collect debts from you for payment of services and your obligation as a citizen to pay taxes. AT&T in fact does not know where you are (or, at least, has no inherent right to). AT&T in fact cannot force you to pay. AT&T's recourse for nonpayment is to report you to credit agencies so that businesses working in concert with them can stop extending you credit. It is in fact a crime to evade taxes. The government has significantly more recourse than AT&T does. Whatever a commercial says or doesn't say, whatever you may think about it, if you owe taxes, you're going to end up paying them. If you've never been in tax trouble before, know that the states are much meaner than the IRS --- pay them first.
- spking 17y agoMy point is that Government should follow the same unwritten rules of decency and good taste in their marketing communications. Just because they know where you live and can put you in jail doesn't make it cool to run TV ads telling you so.
- starkfist 17y agoI don't think it's reasonable to expect much good taste from Pennsylvania.