New taxes for Mass taxpayers?

[DryRain]

13. You are mixing apples and oranges. We need to know:

1) what database was used for the mailing? 2) when the mailing "capture" was made...(the date and time of the actual names on the list). 3) How many weeks progressed between the capture to the mailing? 4) Whether the mailing included food stamp, child care, as well as direct welfare cash payment recipients.

If all food stamp and day care and SSI and medicare recipients were included in the listing, we would have a list of over 200,00, again, perhaps parts of which were up to 3 months out of verification. (An error rate of less than 10%, by the way, if over 200,000 were sent cards).

Sending out 19,000 mis-addressed mailings does NOT equate to your first statement, namely that 19,000 people fraudulently get checks from welfare every month for a year. People move, (in and out of state, even), people GET OFF WELFARE and get jobs. People marry, change their names.

I suspect you read this story on Fox25 or the Boston Herald, and a more complete story indicates that the list used was a few months out of date, or that the list was in some other way defective. But I'd appreciate a follow-up story about the detailed auditing of that list which should have been completed by now.