The irony is that the people in this town are likely to do whatever it takes to keep retirees like this woman living there -- because if she moves out, she'll likely be replaced by a family that will place an enormous burden on the tax base (if they send their kids to public schools).
who says that you cannot expect to live on your own property for as long as you wish once it is paid for?
Unfortanately she is one of millions that will surfacing in the next few years that are using 60’s economics in the 21st century...
And when you need help most I hope that you find the same amount of sympathy, very little. Of course you will have several choices...
I disagree. It's the principle of property rights, which have been abridged over the years due to the local governments' need for ever expanding sums of money. Because local governments are locked out (for the most part) of the income tax scam, they scam the property taxes.
In this situation, however, I would say that the lady may best be served by moving to a lower tax state (and probably one with better climate).
I gotta be honest with you . . . I have ZERO sympathy for someone who has forgotten how this country was built on the backs of people who lived on their own land, in their own homes, for generation after generation.
But that's so "traditionalist", isn't it.
"First, they came for the old widowed grannies..." (But I was a greedy young thing, who thought he would live forever, and never grow old.)
You, too, will some day become a "useless eater" in Lord Stalin's Western Paradise, my friend.