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People in Wash DC lose homes


Posted: Sep 8, 2013

People in Wash DC having been losing their homes over small property tax debts.

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not to sound heartless, but if you can't come up with - $200 or less in taxes

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should you really own a home? How are you paying electric or eating? Wouldn't it be far wiser to sell the home, take the cash and rent an apartment? From the sounds of the things they were moving out of the gentleman's home he could have easily sold some of his belongings for $134 to pay the taxes. The issue is deeper here than the surface article. Either this is their way of rebelling against the city, refusing to pay taxes, or there are larger mental health issues at hand. If you own a home you know you have to pay taxes. It is not something you just forget to pay like a credit card bill. Something smells fishy to me.

Yes, you succeeded at sounding heartless. sm - /

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If you read the article, the gentleman has dementia. Hope you never find yourself in such a situation.

And others own homes outright, been in familes for generations. - messed up NM

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I'd bet $200 myself this is about greedy - speculators planning to make money off

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"gentrifying" more and more areas of Washington, DC. Land in better neighborhoods has become very, very expensive and in demand and will become more so, yet right across the river are juxtaposed ghettos just begging to be turned into gold.

Obviously, local government has become, at best, remiss in its duty to its citizens. Like many other places, some of them probably feel it's in the district's interest to replace not only poor people, but also lower middle class, with wealthy. Whatever the motive, they've let programs in place to help people like this poor man go unused.

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