&gt;giant pile of reasons for ill-will that the US state and Federal governments have been collecting.<p>Lets please not attack the other states because of Texan shenanigans. The fifty states are each semi-autonomous and as such can implement programs like this. This is an exception, not the norm.<p>&gt;blowback happens through the democratic process<p>Why should it? Maybe Texans who work hard and pay their fines want the scofflaws to be caught like this? Democracy doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;things I like.&quot; It often means &quot;things the average voter likes.&quot; Maybe this is &quot;ill will&quot; to you, but to a red state with a strong law and order culture to it, it may not be very controversial at all. You can&#x27;t clamor for states rights in Texas, but also expect liberal soft-on-crime values. All politics is local.<p>Also, these people have capias warrants out for them at the time of this collection. Deadbeats who don&#x27;t pay child support, ignore a civil judgements, ignore fines, etc get these. I don&#x27;t really see a problem with this. If there&#x27;s abuse here, it lies with how capias warrants are given out, not the technology used to enforce them. Why aren&#x27;t we addressing the root issue here? Is there really an issue here other than SJW wankering?