To those
nattering nabobs of negativity who don’t trust government to do the right
thing, or even to stop doing the wrong thing once discovered, I just want to
say: “You’re right.”
Again.
Last April, a Washington
Post exposé about a
bizarrely tyrannical debt collection program caused the Social Security
Administration (SAA) to publicly promise it would cease and desist from said
program. The Social Security bureaucracy had been snatching the income tax
refund checks of grown children whose parents, many decades ago, had allegedly
been sent excess money intended for the care and feeding of these
then-youngsters by this same incompetent outfit.
The booty? A
not insignificant $75 million. The victims? A whopping 400,000 of them.
Due process?
The SSA didn’t go before a judge to prove these people owed a valid debt, nor
even bother to inform folks that their tax refunds were being seized. Instead,
the Social Security gang just flat-out took the money . . . surreptitiously,
like any other thief in the night........To Read More.....
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