Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts

[platoonDaddy]

I don't read the Post, but local talk show was quoting from this article. Reminds me of something the Nazi's and or Communist governments would do.


A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later, when she got a letter saying that her refund had gone to satisfy an old debt to the government — a very old debt.

When Grice was 4, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise. Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grice got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...y.html?hpid=z1

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Reading between the lines, I see this as a practice run for the IRS being able to seize bank accounts for people who have not or will not pay their Obamacare fines. This needs to be watched for sure.

[Crow Hunter]

I think this needs to go to the Supreme Court.

It stinks of Ex-Post Facto.

[montanadave]

Seems pretty ****ed up from where I sit.

[signal4l]

Outrageous. Definitely needs to be examined by our Supreme Court.

[Grand58742]

Two things:

Just goes to show how far the government will overstep it's bounds by punishing the children for the mistakes of their parents.

Shows how little our so called "Representatives" know about the legislation they vote on. Or are being coy by hiding it in completely unrelated bills.

This is the government's way of digging through the couch for spare change. And furthermore justifying the existence of an agency that obviously has way too much time on it's hands and way too much overreach on the People.

[montanadave]

This is the government's way of digging through the couch for spare change.

No shit. Our Congress critters are too cowardly to tackle the real issues so they just release the hounds to scrap up some stray cash to keep the lights on until the next election. And the next. And the next.

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No shit. Our Congress critters are too cowardly to tackle the real issues so they just release the hounds to scrap up some stray cash to keep the lights on until the next election. And the next. And the next.

And as a poster wrote on another thread: before they let themselves go broke they will come for every bit of property that you have, including retirement accounts, land, bank accounts, gold, and even the clothes on your back.

[Grand58742]

Article is a little dated, but still:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...taxes-irs.html

And instead are going after little old ladies that are paying for a government mistake 30 years ago.

[platoonDaddy]

George Will - I’m quite confident that we’re going to rebel against this abusive government. I think that, you know Winston Churchill said, “The American people invariably do the right thing after they have exhausted all the alternatives.” And I think we’re beginning to get to the bottom of the list of alternatives, and to realize that arithmetic is inexorable. You can’t make 2+2 equal 7, and sooner or later arithmetic is going to force realism upon us.