Tennessee to revoke licenses over late child support

Considering the vast majority of nurses are women, and the authorities are mainly interested in nailing men, they feel okay about "targeting" nurses. All they need is a few nursing job applicants waiting in the wings..not that they won't make sure first before pulling any one individual's license. It's not like they're gonna revoke some guy's license on the spot while he's working in the emergency room.

-ax

I think the point is that they plan to revoke all manner of state-issued licenses most especially driver licenses. Without one of those, you are effectively done as a worker unless you have access to good reliable public transit. If not, you are pretty much screwed.

Funny thing is ("funny" not in the actual sense of course) is that by revoking a person's driver license, or other licenses in particular those that permit him to do a professional job, you remove his ability for all intents and purposes to make a decent living. So the state will only be cutting off its nose to spite its face. They will go from collecting taxes on someone making a living to collecting nothing. This kind of "de-licensing" scheme is also a one-way trip to creating a kind of domestic undocumented underclass which as we know only leads such people to turn to more drastic measures to survive, criminality often being an unwanted but unavoidable option for them.

Try as it might, the state cannot stop the side-effects of its fundamental anti-father injustice. If it will spawn this kind of actual, measurable injustice throughout society, society will suffer actual, measurable consequences. Cause and effect is a law no one can get around.

..the man is arrested and jailed for not paying child support; and then he accumulates arrearages and fees while in jail. If you guys thing I'm kidding, read "Taken Into Custody".

-ax

manonthestreet

I don't know much about the American Constitution but I can not imagine that this is not a denial of constitutional rights. Even if I am wrong it is still a tyranny and an abuse of power.

It is a blatant violation of at least a half-dozen constitutional rights, for example right to due process and presumption of innocense

-ax

Took ill a few years back, still have debt from that. I worry as I'm picking up the pieces and trying to break even that the rug is going to be yanked out from under me by a demand for everything up front.

Little different, but I have a friend who was in a similar situation. He took 2 years off due to disability, rehabbed enough to get back to work. He got a decent job fixing electronics, 20/hr, but he had to move out of state for it. He called up the CSE office and told them he was working, his current support order was reduced to 0, but he owed $9000 in arrears, of which he has been making payments on for the past year and a half. So when he called them it was simply to give them a different source to take the money from rather than his social security disability & to update the address information. He was simply trying to keep current. Instead of just being happy to take his money, CSE issues a warrant for his arrest for interstate flight of CS obligation, and he got to spend the weekend in jail, his only way out was to come up with $2200 to pay toward it in one lump sum. His family ponied up for that, but it just illustrates my point that you can't expect these folks to be reasonable. This isn't someone running from anything, he tried to make right, and they still arrested him and he still has a hearing on it in a few weeks. I doubt he will end up convicted of anything, but its quite insulting that you can't even move for work to try to make good on your debts faster without getting arrested.