[LambSlave]

This has always been my nightmare. There are so many taxes here in PA, to so many different local taxing authorities, I’m never sure if I’m paying them all. It’s not about the money, it’s about the nickel and diming to death. I went for three years without paying some local poll tax, until I got a collection agency hounding me over twenty dollars!! The judge and anyone involved in this travesty are beyond despicable, evil... I would not shed a tear if they were all publicly hanged.

[andyk]

Joe Askar, Beaver County's chief solicitor

Joe, you're a snake in the grass.

[pgkdan]

Someone needs to figure out who ordered the sale, who bought it and how they’re related and then how they’re connected to this judge.

[drypowder]

Did they shoot the lady's dog too?? What a heartless POS judge, as is the county tax assessor. Corruption abounds at all levels of government, throw it off.

[GeronL]

pure insanity

[editor-surveyor]

America is crazy.

[William Tell]

In a more reasonable world, the judge could have declared the woman incompetent to manage her own affairs, appointed a caretaker, and ordered the sale of her assets to generate the $6.30. If the house still had to be sold to satisfy the debt, then the woman would at least have coming the market value of the house less six bucks.

If the woman successfully argues that she isn't incompetent, then the tax sale proceeds.

[skinkinthegrass]

everybody (in authority); involved w/this case, "should be tar and
feathered, ridden out on a rail."..it's criminal. (g*d d@mn taxes!)

[Saltmeat]

I am appalled that the law does not require that delinquent tax notices must be sent by return receipt requested mail. How does the judge know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lady received the notices using first class mail?

[Political Junkie Too]

What happened to her protection against excessive, cruel or unusual punishment? Seizing a quarter million dollar home over a six dollar debt seems to be very excessive punishment to me.

-PJ

[Chode]

wouldn't be surprised if the purchaser came home someday to a pile of ashes...

[madprof98]

Did he legalize gay marriage while he was at it? Judges really need to show people who’s boss.

[I want the USA back]

Ah! you don’t mess with the all powerful State. It controls us from birth to death. It feels that it has a right to go into your pockets and take what you earned. It resents your right to private property.

[SargeK]

Where the sheriff who will be conducting the sale was arrested himself for threatening to cut the arms off of his own campaign aide and pulling a gun on a reporter.

And he’s still in office. Guess the party?

Solid D county too, BTW.

[usconservative]

There’s a judge that needs to be taken out to the nearest oak tree and strung up by his neck.

[Verginius Rufus]

Another example of why people tend to hate lawyers?

I recall a story from maybe 2 or 3 years ago of an elderly man in a small town in Michigan who tried to pay his heating bill but they rejected the payment because of some trivial mistake and cut off his heat during a bitterly cold spell. He froze to death in his own house.