Also, you're probably not going to win a dispute with a / the state. The USA government stole my money once (bank transfer). It was a rent payment to a landlord with a Muslim-sounding name. I contested it by sending in their form with the case number that they'd provided me.

They responded saying they had no case matching my info. I gave up before investing more time because I thought it was unlikely to end well for the amount of effort I'd have to invest.

I started directly depositing money orders into his account. No problems after that. The USA government profited one month of my rental rate. I nearly got evicted when my rent wasn't delivered. No explanation was ever given to me.

Ah but if you _do_ want to win a dispute with the state, you must not give up when you hit a logical contradiction. The only way out is through.

This isn't "I lose a dispute with the state," it's "I hit a pebble-sized roadblock and immediately gave up."

I'm glad that a month's rent isn't a lot of money to you but this probably shouldn't inform your opinion on how it is to interact with the state.