Now If You Ditch Your State Taxes, You'll Lose Your California Driver's License

California Gov. Jerry Brown is sick of celebrities flaking out on their state tax returns.

Brown signed a bill on Oct. 4 requiring the motor vehicle department to suspend the driver's licenses of its worst delinquents, many of whom you already know, reports the Journal.

Now they'll be publicly outed:

"The California driver's license suspensions will affect the state's top 1,000 tax debtors, whose names will be published online in two lists of 500 each. One list will be drawn from the income-tax rolls, with those on the second drawn from sales and other tax rolls. The new law expands an existing program by doubling the number of names on the published lists and adding the license suspensions."

The bill also applies to medical, beautician, physician's nurses, and other licenses, and follows the path of "at least 19 states, including Wisconsin, North Carolina, New York, Florida, Montana, Connecticut, Kentucky and New Jersey ... according to data from CCH, a unit of WoltersKluwer."

Pamela Anderson is on the books for $607,000, while Halsey Minor, a founder of CNET, is said to owe $14.2 million in income taxes, according to the paper.

What would you do if your license was suspended? Have you skipped your state taxes before?

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Here Are The Deadliest Drivers In Europe

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According to a 2011 report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe an average of about 100,000 Europeans lose their lives in traffic accidents every year. That's almost double the number of North Americans. 

Using the data in this report, we've listed the countries on the continent that you should avoid driving in based on the number of road deaths per population (and the total number of deaths last year for tiebreakers).

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Guess Which City Has The Worst Drivers In America

There are plenty of good things about our nation's capital, but driving skills are not one of them.

Washington, DC again came in dead last on Allstate's annual list of the 193 safest driving cities in America (via Jalopnik).

According to the insurance company, drivers in the city go an average of 4.8 years between accidents.

That's pretty frequent when you consider that in the safest driving city, Fort Collins, Colo., drivers have accidents every 14 years, on average.

And drivers in DC are more than twice as likely to get in a wreck than the national average rate.

Props to drivers in Fort Collins; Boise, Idaho; Lincoln, Neb.; Chandler, Ariz. and Huntsville, Ala., whose hometowns were ranked the safest.

Phoenix was the safest city with a population over 1 million.

And to drivers in DC; Baltimore; Glendale, Calif.; Newark; and Providence, RI, which ranked at the bottom of the list, please, keep an eye on the road this Labor Day weekend.

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