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Judge OKs decision to sell widow's home over $6.30 debt
Fox News ^
| 04-28-2014
| Associated Press
Posted on 04/28/2014 2:22:17 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
BEAVER, Pa. A widow was given ample notice before her $280,000 house was sold at a tax auction three years ago over $6.30 in unpaid interest, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled.
The decision last week turned down Eileen Battisti's request to reverse the September 2011 sale of her home outside Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania.
"I paid everything, and didn't know about the $6.30," Battisti said. "For the house to be sold just because of $6.30 is crazy."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: beaver; beaveragain; debt; eileenbattisti; house; judge; pennsylvania
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To: PaulCruz2016
The deprived depths of out of control bureaucrats is disgusting.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:40:13 PM PDT
by
TsonicTsunami08
(SEND BITCOIN 1CYfujvffxKKPHKvrQvLP3CDb3Z5Lu7LwM)
To: PaulCruz2016
I’d burn the damned thing down and crap on top of the ashes before I gave it to them.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:40:13 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: PaulCruz2016
"The county never wants to see anybody lose their home, but at the same time the tax sale law, the tax real estate law, doesn't give a whole lot of room for error, either," Askar said.
To: PaulCruz2016
This has always been my nightmare. There are so many taxes here in PA, to so many different local taxing authorities, I’m never sure if I’m paying them all. It’s not about the money, it’s about the nickel and diming to death. I went for three years without paying some local poll tax, until I got a collection agency hounding me over twenty dollars!! The judge and anyone involved in this travesty are beyond despicable, evil... I would not shed a tear if they were all publicly hanged.
To: Newbomb Turk
If this came to my desk I would have whipped out $7 bucks in cash and told some lawyers to GTFO of my office.
My exact first thought. Who the heck could have had the opportunity but not helped?
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:41:59 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: PaulCruz2016
Joe Askar, Beaver County's chief solicitor
Joe, you're a snake in the grass.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:43:47 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: PaulCruz2016
Someone needs to figure out who ordered the sale, who bought it and how they’re related and then how they’re connected to this judge.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:43:51 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
To: PaulCruz2016
Did they shoot the lady's dog too?? What a heartless POS judge, as is the county tax assessor. Corruption abounds at all levels of government, throw it off.
To: Sgt_Schultze
“So in the end, home ownership is a fantasy.”
You are wrong. It’s not a fantasy. It’s an illusion.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:44:51 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: pgkdan
Still very useful in law and police work:
Cui bono?
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:47:37 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: DoughtyOne
The word is razed. And, yes.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:47:41 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: PaulCruz2016
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:48:52 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: RetiredTexasVet
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:50:19 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: PaulCruz2016
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:50:39 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: yarddog
My Brother-in-Law was a manager for the IRS. I remember him telling me that if an amount owed was less than $10.00 it would simply be written off as not worth fooling with. That depends on your politics. I worked for the IRS. In 1974 I was ordered to seize an individual's automobile to pay $0.35 (that's right, 35 cents) of unpaid telephone excise tax because the refusal to pay was a protest against the Vietnam war. Normally the IRS doesn't get involved with telephone excise taxs, but since it was a federal tax, and there were political ramifications all bets were off.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:50:39 PM PDT
by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: F15Eagle
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:51:11 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: PaulCruz2016
In a more reasonable world, the judge could have declared the woman incompetent to manage her own affairs, appointed a caretaker, and ordered the sale of her assets to generate the $6.30. If the house still had to be sold to satisfy the debt, then the woman would at least have coming the market value of the house less six bucks.
If the woman successfully argues that she isn't incompetent, then the tax sale proceeds.
To: PowderMonkey
Yea try that with the goverment. .yea I send it ..it didn’t get returned so you got it..
IN FACT It should be the same standard for both..they say mail the sent the bill you say you mailed the check..
They say then need no proof you received the bill ..you need no proof they received the check..
If I need to sent in registering letter with signed received mail back to me as proof I sent the check..they need the same for proof on the bill
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:52:04 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Per PC left logic, the only problem with racism is the race of the racist.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
That would require investigative reporting.
Nobody does that any more as it makes statists uncomfortable and costs the news owner money.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:52:48 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Auntie Dem
I actually remember him talking about the telephone excise tax cases because they were chosen by anti Vietnam protestors.
He also told me of the days of the hair tonic taxes. They would pad statistics by focusing on them.
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posted on
04/28/2014 2:53:50 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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