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I am not sure I follow your logic. A person who is stripped of a passport is still a citizen, and these people are ones who have been found in court to owe money (with child support). Not paying that child support often leads to financial issues for the parent with the child, but creates a drag on the government.
Not paying your taxes can already get you in jail, so I mean, you really shouldn't be traveling if you have huge sums like $60k plus in taxes owed.
From what I am getting about this, you can still freely move in the US and spend all the money you want to here. However, you can't go on a vacation and spend money you claim you do not have in another country.
I don't really think people should go to jail for debt -- whether owed to the federal government or not.
From my perspective, my government does not afford me the ability to travel abroad any more than it affords me the ability to breathe the air. We, regrettably, have built up a system where I cannot travel internationally without a passport, therefore I see it as my government's responsibility to supply such a document.
It feels a little like the attitude here is that we are sheep to be kept in a pen and we only get to leave the pen of the government says we can.
My argument in the above comment was that there are many systems that might make the collection of debts (or solving other problems) much easier, but they come at a cost that isn't worth paying. The restriction of passports seems like such a case to me.
So would requiring everyone to give all their money to a government controlled bureau that then determines who owes what and settles everything on our behalf...but that would suck.