[anonymoushn]

They are public employees. Wouldn't it be a bit weirder to expect people to pay taxes without knowing what they were spent on?

[cmsmith]

We should know where our tax dollars are going, but I don't really see the problem with anonomizing the data - at least for the bottom 95% of earners. There are also aspects of government spending which would be way more interesting to me (and way more likely to be evidence of corruption) than how much my neighbor the train mechanic makes.

[rmc]

Public employees are still people, and hence have the right to privacy.