...can ultimately end up with armed goons forcing you out of your home if you don't pay up.
Just so you recognize and accept your ultimate place in the grand scheme of things.
What's most disturbing about this is not the bovine stupidity of the bureaucrat (who prudently does not list an edress on the city website)--but some of the comments from the statist Massholes should leave no doubt why the voters keeps returning Ted Kennedy to power.
For some reason a title just came to me: The Penny Rebellion. Don't tell Mike Vanderboegh or he's liable to crank out Chapter One: "The Battle of Glenn Street," and we need him staying focused on Absolved...:)
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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I suppose it's idiotic to send out a special billing letter for a penny, when it costs 42 cents (or whatever bulk rate is) to send the letter out, rather than just roll the penny into the next bill...but other than that I don't see where telling someone to pay up or there'll be consequences is such a big deal.
And having to pay the penny as part of her next property tax payment is not that terribly exciting either.
Sooo......maybe somebody can tell me what horror story I'm missing here? Other than 42 cents to try and collect one (and I can't believe that the computer billing system couldn't be set to not send letters below a certain threshold, but that's a different issue).
These government parasites are not citizens like the rest of us. The hate us if we vote down a new tax scam because they feel we cheated them out of their money. Our money or what they haven't cheated us out of is our money only because they allow us to keep it.
If this blind woman just blew this one cent bill off in due time her door would have been kicked in and JBT would slam her on the floor and put chains on her. Her private propterty would be put on the sidewalk and she would be in jail.
Meanwhile back at the living room in the house next door the fat sheep are baaaaa baaaaa to one another over the new TV show, Idiots action like morons on video.
Would a penny with a perfectly-centered .22 hole be perceived as a threat?
There was the libertarian writer whose locality objected to his lawn height. They would send a crew to cut it and bill him.
He said then they'd need a new crew, and a new supervisor, and a new public works administrator, and...
... and they suddenly didn't worry about his lawn any more.
I will stand by my neighbor. I have no complaints with them; why should a necktie-strangled geek 20 miles away in the administrative complex have one?
A co-worker finished my sentence for me the other day: They don't realize how sick and tired The People really are of being pushed around as if WE are the employees. And they never know WHICH heavy-handed threat will be The One, so they should assume that ANY could be.
Does your motor vehicle department award "good points" for every year you don't have a moving violation? I think residents who don't rob, kill, vandalize, rape, steal, should be assumed to have accumulated a certain number of brownie points. Tiny, tiny things like a one-cent discrepancy in a payment, filing taxes April 16th, and other bureaucrat-banes, should be weighed against the massive BENEFIT we impose on society by just behaving ourselves the way we're supposed to.
Like teeth, ignore good citizenship, and it can go away...
Why the outrage over the theft of one penny and the acceptance of the theft of much larger amounts? Taxation is nothing more than theft.
Well, lawhobbit, here goes.
Here's the problem. Stupidity! Simple isn't it?
Uh huh, stupidity and tyranny. Gee, you'd think that if their system can recognize a 1 cent underpayment, and obviously it could because they threatened an elderly blind woman with the full force of the state's armed thugs because of it. You would then have to think that Gee, if it recognized the 1 cent underpayment on last month's bill, it would be an easy, efficient and responsible thing to carry the unpaid balance forward to next month's bill and add 1 cent. If that bill was then paid in its entirety, everyone is exactly where they should be. Without the threats of overwhelming force against a 72 year old blind woman.
Now, that I have shown you what the sensible, moral, and best thing to have done, doesn't that raise a question of why it wasn't? Oh noes, could it be that the character of the slate of public servants we get is in dire need of existence? Doesn't it make you want to ask why this wasn't handled in an acceptable and rational manner that doesn't violate the precepts of civilization? And if it doesn't, what is wrong with you?
Why is it that I envision city hall buried in pennies, from local residents who think that the city needs a message?
Too bad it'll never happen. But I like to dream.
Since it's tough to get people not to pay their taxes, I was reading this, thinking we should send in our taxes one penny short. But that would just result in a slowdown while the IRS fines everyone hundreds of dollars for the penny they were short.
Why not OVER pay a penny, and let them send you a check that you do not cash? Most businesses keep cases "open" until checks sent out are returned. It would be more than a penny protest, it could actually have an effect.
hopefully they won't send any police over to collect. They might shoot her seeing eye dog.
that's funny -- i thought the state was all for redistribution from rich, private citizens to poor, private citizens.
now you're telling me they're all for redistribution from rich and poor private citizens to... themselves?
you don't say.
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