The very first sentence of this article indicates the Supreme Court hamstrung the state in legal tax collections. So the state did an end run and transferred the debt to a private agency. Who did the dirty work.
Ethical? Not really. But neither is the homeowner ignoring a measly thousand dollar tax bill when other viable options were available to her.
As I said, private companies should not be tolerated in undertaking the duties of government. We have protections of our rights with government that we do not have if we allow private companies to violate those rights with impunity.
Ethical? Not really. But neither is the homeowner ignoring a measly thousand dollar tax bill when other viable options were available to her.
I don't consider a failure to pay a tax bill, and let me add, one which you may have had no input in deciding how much it will be, as an "ethical" question.
With all the abuse by government of the people, and their tendency to make people pay for obscene and immoral things, I dare say it is "ethical" to fight the payment of taxes in any way you can.
I think Jefferson said that "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."