“... you know the county got more than $134 from the sale. So what happens to the rest of the money? Free profits for the government from stealing the property of the citizenry.”
Spirited: It was Solzhenitsyn who saw America’s fall into the legalism (political correctness)used to seize this elderly vets house. Legalism is pragmatic (whatever works), hypocritical, and morally relative, or the feelings-based moralism of the powerful.
The hypocrisy of this act is seen by the fact that had this vet been a member of one of our politically-favored groups a blind eye would have been turned to his property taxes. And if by chance his house was seized the “offenders” would be forced to publically confess his sin and doubtless be forced to resign as well.
Another is always hypocritical
Yes, legalism is nothing but tyranny by bureaucrats, and bureaucrats, being nameless, faceless, unaccountable and nearly inerradicable, might be the worst tyrants of all. At least with a charismatic tyrant like a Hitler, you have an opportunity to depose or assassinate him, and perhaps set things back on track. Getting rid of bureaucrats is futile, so all we can hope to do is limit how much power they can amass for themselves.