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The assertion that "Another state should not have access to out of state residents bank account information" is a very childish view of government. There's nothing stopping "the government" from doing anything "it" wants. High school history class should have taught everyone that.
There are a bunch of American government employees who are enveloped in American culture as much as we are. They're also influenced by rules, from the Constitution down to their time card submission steps.
The child says "the government of Oregon should have a rule that they can't take money from people who live in California!" When presented with cases in which it's obvious that Oregon should be able to take money from people who live in California, like delinquent child support or tax evasion, the child will try to add caveats and rules and exceptions to make their original assertion work in practice. When that is done by adults, it's called "writing laws and policies", and has already been done.
This particular case? I don't really know, or care to investigate. The vast majority of situations that I've heard about via social media like this actually have the "victim" doing exceptionally shady shit, and it's obvious that the existing, reasonable laws and policies targeted them. Sometimes we should update the rules to allow their particular brand of shady shit. Sometimes actually innocent people get caught up in systemic flaws and the right change is to fix those. But it has to be fixed by adults, not children crying that states should never be allowed to take money from people out of state.
With only adults in the room, there are enjoyable discussions to be had about how culture can result in government employees doing heinous shit in spite of well written rules. If children are present, those discussions become unpleasant, perhaps impossible.
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A woman who lives and works in California had $20,000 taken out of her bank account by The Oregon Department of Revenue She’s never lived in Oregon yet they were able to get her bank account information and take her money Oregon said the woman owed the money in unpaid income taxes and penalties, but she didn’t. She’s never lived or worked there She called and apparently Oregon has an address for her that was literally a public park They told her it would be 5+ months to refund her money. The woman had to get the local media involved to put pressure to make them give the money back faster Eventually, Oregon admitted it was a mistake Another state should not have access to out of state residents bank account information
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