Aguirre to post names of San Diego's debtors on Web

San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 11/21/2005 | Karen Kucher

[CAWats]

SAN DIEGO – City Attorney Michael Aguirre said Monday he planned to post on his office's Web site the names of people and companies who owe the city money, in an attempt to prompt them to pay up.

The city will mail notices to about 30,000 individuals, companies and government agencies that owe the city $250 or more in delinquent debt, giving them 30 days' notice of the potential posting. More than 560,000 debtors owe the city money, city officials said.

[Verginius Rufus]

Werner Herzog has already done the movie about this: The Wrath of Aguirre.

[Age of Reason]

The Wrath of Aguirre.

And it was a stupid movie, too.

[samadams2000]

#1. The people of Mexico.

[babydoll22]

I thought all cities and towns did this.

Our town has been doing this for years. At first it was called the wall of shame. Now people don't pay their taxes on time, just to get their names in the paper.

It is published once a year and everyone in town gets a copy to see who owes what.

Most people go in and pay their taxes the day after the list is printed.

Finally got a Republican mayor. He plans to run the list twice a year.

[newzjunkey]

...hundreds of thousands of individuals, companies and government agencies owe the city of San Diego more than $90 million in delinquent debt – an amount that includes collection fees and interest.

That's a lot of uncollected debt!

[newzjunkey]

The title was Aguirre, Wrath of God :)