A 93-Year-Old Woman Couldn't Pay Her $2,300 Tax Bill. The Government Sold Her Home and Kept the Money.

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[–]In-the-clouds 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

It feels like serfdom, where we are all peasants living on someone else's land. We don't own the land or the house. Those that don't pay the yearly property tax can see they didn't actually own anything but were renting from the government, and when they didn't pay their rent, they got evicted.

We don't really own anything in this short life. Everything here is temporary.

Interesting article.

[–]naples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Maybe, but that article is fairly biased. This is how the government controls nuisance properties in a bad neighborhood.
If you'd ever lived in the hood you would probably see it differently.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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