Getting Taxpayers To Rat On Each Other Is Uncool

I must confess I've never been big on tattling, particularly when the tattlers have something to gain financially. There is a lot of that going on in the state tax world these days. I'm talking about qui tam lawsuits, of course. Most Americans don't know much about them. Indeed, a lot of legislatures don't know much about them. Yet they have been proliferating in recent years.