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Tell me again how government does such a wonderful job protecting the weakest & most vulnerable.

DC is notoriously slimy with taxes. It's not surprising that they would do something like this. For example, DC tries to trick VA and MD based businesses into paying corporate taxes in DC if they work with the federal government based on the unsound lie that because the federal government is based in DC any business that works with the Feds must pay DC taxes. Even if that business never sets foot in DC, or works with a single federal person in DC.

Thankfully VA and MD don't recognize this twisted logic.

Tell me again what system actually does a wonderful job

Things like this would never, ever happen in most "socialist" European countries.

Yet another thing I would do if I was rich: buy up the unfortunate circumstances and forgive them.

I understand how it would be hard for the government to implement a policy to do the same, but this situation is ridiculous.

Yes many of us would-- in the case of the subject of the article, it would've only required $134 if done early enough (before it snowballed to $4,999).

An important part of the article is that the subject profiled had dementia and was thus may not have been able to understand what was going on and was basically taken advantage of, albeit legally.

you don't have to be rich!

http://rollingjubilee.org/

http://strikedebt.org/

http://www.occupyourhomes.org/

http://occupyforeclosure.org/

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