Posted on 01/18/2013 10:52:09 PM PST by 444Flyer
Most people think spare change just weighs them down.
But one California man put his to good use - saving up enough coins and dollar bills to pay his hefty $14,000 property tax bill.
Larry Gasper shocked tellers at a Redding bank branch when he showed up with a wheelbarrow full of change this week.
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Reminds me of my dad. Back in the mid 60’s, he was always receiving junk mail from an insurance company. It really torqued him off for some reason.
So, he took a cardboard box and loaded it up with cow manure. Placed the postage paid return envelope on the box with a letter:
“Stop sending me your crap, and I’ll stop sending you mine”.
He took it down to the post office, small town where everyone knew everybody and told them what he was doing. Of course back then they mailed it.
He received no more solicitation from that company.;-)
of course he got a receipt.
Folks, this is no big deal for a bank. My bank has accepted bags of coins from me without a problem. They bag ‘em & tag ‘em & send them to be counted, crediting my account a day or so later.
I seriously doubt the bank counted the money on the spot.
“legal tender for all debts public and private”.
Good luck trying to pay with paper money at The Ohio State University. Talk about a bunch of pissants.
In my small home in North Tx paying 2800/yr on property taxes. Sure its less comparing to a northeast state but still its a chunk of change for govt to extort. Over 55% of which goes directly to the public school district. Never had any children so why should I pay so much to public education and its Administration when I get zero benefits in return. Its govt theft as I see it.
he showed up with a wheelbarrow full of change this week.
In the picture you posted, it sure looks like a wagon to me or do the Brits call a wagon, "wheelbarrow"?
My first reaction to the photo, also. I’ve spent too many days on the handles of a wheelbarrow to let that one slip.
My dad kept getting junk from Good Sam travel club. He kept sending the junk back asking to be taken off the mailing list. Finally he taped their post paid envelope to a chunk of granite about the size of a nice pet tombstone with one more request adding “I have larger rocks.”
They took him off of the mailing list.
Over 2/3 of my property tax bill goes to the schools when we home school our children. 1/3 of the taxes we pay for fire protection is wasted on the next township over that does not have a fire department. I pay for a lot of services that I don’t receive. Let me rephrase that, I pay for a lot of theft by my local government.
That relates a bit to our situation, too. We have a large house here in Virginia (25 acres around it) and a smaller house in Pennsylvania (15 acres around it), and we pay almost as much property tax in Pa. as we do in Va. The reason? In that county in Pa. they built this Taj Mahal of an elementary school and jacked up the property taxes.
We have never had any children, yet we have the privilege of paying for the educational expenses of other people's children in two states.
I live in a small town and the jail is full of scum that has moved here from Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids and places of the same ilk.
I think it’s more likely that the journalism major didn’t care about the reality, and just picked whatever words would most conveniently convey HIS message, without having to look too far into the situation. Few care much for facts these days.
The funding of a pro-homosexual, anti-God Socialistic education for somebody elses kid.
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