Posted on 02/20/2016 2:31:47 PM PST by TBP
Is there any question that the Government NEEDS an ENEMA and soon.
I did not go to the article, but just based on what I am seeing here the guy was not put into prison; he was compelled to set up a payment plan. Does not sound unreasonable to me.
Agree.
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Agree, he owes the money, and obviously had no intention to pay.
But I see no justification for the method of collection.
They could have seized his car or his house.
Hell fire Away!
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Did you read the article?
He was wrong. Texas never could override federal enforcements. Texas law may prohibit debt collections of various sorts that are in the jurisdiction of Texas, and that would be their right as a State, but not concerning federal debt. (However, I’d love to see a 10th amendment challenge to even that law.)
“They could have seized his car or his house.”
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Yes,if they are in his name. I’m sure he thought of that too.
The guy is playing games.
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Not federal marshals on his door.
Collections are pretty common for all kinds of debt with no one breaking the door down
If that was a metric for crime, far more people would be stealing something.
“I wonder who the hell the Obamanazis will be sending to get our guns. ISIS?”
They’ll have to. Won’t ISIS be surprised to find out that civilized men can fight like bloodthirsty savages, too.
“Er, no... “
Remember to stand next to someone important.
They probably spent well over $10,000 collecting on a $1,500 debt.
It can, and will. They can seize any payments made to you from the fedgov, too. Such as income tax refunds, grants, payments for contract services, etc...
If you owe one agency, and another goes to pay you, it has to clear Treasury, and they will take it. All payments from fedgov to anyone outside fedgov go through the Treasury.
Wages would be garnished if they managed to get hired in the first place. Security clearance would be revoked and if the clearance was a condition of employment the employee would be terminated.
There are enough valid criticisms of civil service employees without people who obviously don’t know a damned thing about the system making stuff up.
Salaries can be garnished in California.
See the corrected reply below the one you are referring to.
Texas has a strange Constitution that was written by men in 1872 who were still deeply in debt after the civil war and as such has some rather unique protections against garnishments and seizures.
Interesting.
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