Posted on 12/12/2011 8:49:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
Coral Gables house donated to government sold for $1.175 million
A South Florida man willed his historic house worth $1 million to the U.S. government to help eliminate the country's growing debt.
The Miami Herald reports that Uncle Sam put the Coral Gables house up for auction Saturday. The winning bid was $1.175 million.
The house belonged to James H. Davidson Jr. who lived there from his teenage years until he died last December at 87. He also left $1 million to the government.
What an idiot.
Prima facie evidence of dementia.
That money, directed to the treasury, vaporizes in a second at the present rate of debt accumulation.
Contributed to the tea party or the right organization, it would have an impact long term on reducing government and thus reducing the current deficit and the cumulative debt.
The government will spend it wisely. /sarc
Of course he can do what he wants with his money, but giving it to the Fed Gov was a foolish waste. He could have given it to the local government and maybe had a library or park built.
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