[ivegotabrain]

LA Times requires registration and cookies, which is annoying to say the least. Story will enrage.

[George from New England]

Could someone else please post the full article. These news operations that require registration p!ss me off.
You know they will sell your email and increase the junk that you have to tolerate.

[jjm2111]

The gov't shits all over people who cannot fight back.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I would have given this man the money in a heartbeat. Damn.

[RightWhale]

Isn't there a tax exemption for seniors?

[Hodar]

The county was selling the condo because, seven years ago, Dotson failed to pay one $546.81 tax bill

And we are then lead to believe that in the past 7 years he was unable to pay his tax? That this was a surpise to him, that no one warned him that he could lose his home?

Sanity check ... minimum bid was $4,287 his yearly tax bill is $546.81. Assuming that taxes do actually increase, and there are penalties assessed for non-payment of taxes lets do some math.

$4287 tax bill/$546.81 tax per year means that he is behind in taxes 7.84 years. Or, this man has refused to pay taxes for the past 7 years. What did he expect.

[cruiserman]

Another example of why private property is a sham. No one is a home owner if he pays property taxes.

[cavtrooper21]

Socialist Republic of Kalifornia Ping
And a Vet too, they have no shame....

[spodefly]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/la-me-taxsale17feb17,0,2999996.story?coll=sfla-newsnation-front

link to a non-password version on another paper.

[muawiyah]

This is the exact same system that was in place in California in the 1940s. It is regularly used to dispossess unpopular minorities, and sometimes dishonest local officials will target the elderly or poor for disposession.

The Japanese-American community in California owned billions of dollars of property. One family I know owned Wilshire Boulevard for all practical purposes. THe LA county sheriff stole it from them while they were imprisoned in Arkansas with a son in China on Stillwell's top level staff. They were given a settlement at the end of WWII worth 5 cents on the dollar. They bought a serious farm with the money. Later on they sold it to Disney for his Disneland parking lot.

All attempts to reform the California real property-theft system have met massive opposition from well-financed interests.

Unfortunately for everybody these interests are bi-partisan and many well-known Conservative and Liberal Hollywood types have dipped their spears in the blood of victimized property owners time after time.

Rest assured that the evil minions at the Los Angeles Times continue to lay in wait for Jim Robinson to slip up on his property tax payments. They will use the corrupt California court system to lay him low in a second.

[Reeses]

which is annoying

The user name and password "annoying" works at the LA Slimes as well as many other annoying sites. You do have to accept their cookie though.

[MEGoody]

So LA county doesn't have homestead exemptions for the elderly? Gee, I never would have imagined that for such a 'liberal' location.

Wonder why Babs Streisand or Danny Glover or Alec Baldwin or some of the other hollyweird types didn't pony up to help this poor man. Could it be their liberal 'compassion' doesn't really exist?

[CyberAnt]

Possible Solution: Find out who the congressperson is for his district, and tell them. Hopefully it will be a person who will go to bat for this guy and set things right!

[Slainte]

You guys really should read the entire article. This has been playing out for almost a year, and there is much, much more to the story than you can gleen from the excerpt...