Before you know it, you'll be getting bombarded with advertisements.
Besides, in the EU, a society where the average person hates it when someone who is not him is doing well, I'd rather people not know how much I earn.
Don't generalize. The EU has 28 member states, with diverse cultures and social norms. What works in Norway may not work in the southern Italy.
It argue tax forms are private, but that's what's at issue here. Many societies think this should be public information. It goes a long way towards preventing graft.
Not true.Read this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising/d...
The fact is that most rich people live without showing off. They enjoy having the freedom to do in their lives what they want but they do not want other people kidnapping their children or blackmailing them. Or just people behaving different with them because of the money.
You know Bill Gates used to park his car like everybody else in MS, until it became impossible for him to park without having 1 or 2 people ask him for money(on the tens of thousand of dollars each time).
Or ask me. I am not Bill Gates, but for people in my environment I have "made it".
Just putting my name in my HN account will significantly change how people react to my comments.
Of course... Because if you live at place X you're rich and Y you're poor
That is naive at best.
"Published tax forms will have no effect on your probability of being robbed."
Of course not, so maybe you can start and put your tax info somewhere public.
http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/#req...
Hell no.
I don't want to be targeted be advertisers, penalised by insurers, and become a target for robbery because I have my personal information spread around for everyone to see.
There's a lot of personal shit on your tax return. Far more than is even apparent. It can also expose your side business to your employer which could cause issues.
I'm all for salary transparency, but tax returns are pretty private forms that contain an extremely high amount of PI, and can be data mined to expose even more implicit forms of PI.