Where I live, you have until the last minute to pay the back taxes and it’s advertised as a tax sale with the amount owed. If a 76 year old couldn’t pay $134 or needed help paying, we as neighbors would have done it. I’m in NY state, granted upstate, and we would never let this happen to a neighbor. DC really sucks!
ya know, if they can take his house and auction it off to pay a measly $134 bill, they can come in and take his television set and sell it on craig’s list to pay the debt. but they didn’t think to do that though, did they? Oh no. Those criminal SOBs went right for his house. If we’re a nation of laws and representatives, our representatives need to pass a law that makes it illegal for the government to seize a man’s house over tax debts. ever. period. end of story. That sounds very reasonable to me and like something that conservatives and liberals might actually be able to agree on scarily enough.