It’s not that I don’t see the dark side here of social neglect.
But, I can’t help but see a bright side, too. This guy’s privacy was respected for 15 years. His house wasn’t trashed or vandalized, he wasn’t robbed, and the tax collectors didn’t confiscate the place for back RE taxes. How long do you think you could lie undisturbed in your home here, in the Land of the Free?
IIRC correctly about 3 years. May have been Florida - can’t remember for sure.
The person had everything set up on automatic payments/bank drafts. Can’t remember exactly how it was discovered. Was reported in the national news, and I think an article was posted here too.
I too thought about that aspect, and I agree to an extent.
But ... your point would further make the case for eliminating the high confiscatory tax rates and nanny state programmed government in France. When alive, this long dead elderly man surely paid his exhorbitant taxes, yet the big lazy and incompetent nanny state never sought fit to check on the man’s welfare or status.
The dead man deserves a refund!