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The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure,

No it's not. The records in question aren't public because they involve foreign workers. They are public because the records involve a program run by the government.

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So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.

The IRS records of foreign workers aren't published either.

Their salaries are. That's the whole point of this submission.

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