Social Security Stops Trying to Collect on Old Taxpayer Debts

Another small crack in government power. Government bows to mass power.

The Social Security Administration has just announced that it will immediately cease efforts to collect on taxpayers’ debts to the government that are more than 10 years old.

The action comes after The Washington Post reported that the government is seizing state and federal tax refunds that were on their way to about 400,000 Americans who had relatives who owed money to Social Security. In many cases, the people whose refunds were intercepted had never heard of any debt and the debts dated as far back as the middle of the last century.