Criminal Tax Collectors

Foreclosure For Sale

If you are a home owner and you fall delinquent on your property taxes, the local tax collector can kick you out, sell the house and use the proceeds from the sale to pay the taxes you owe. However, it seems that some places, like Multnomah County (our local hotbed of criminal Democrats), are keeping the entire proceeds from the sale even if it greatly exceeds the amount of tax owed. One dude in Lane County (another hotbed of foolishness and home to University of Oregon) owed $32K in back taxes. The county sold his house for $118K and instead of forwarding the surplus to the former owner, they put it in their pocket. What a bunch of shitheads. Jayati Ramakrishnan reports for The Oregonian. The Supreme court has found this criminal behavior to be criminal and now people who have gotten screwed over are going to court to get their money back. I would be happy to see some tax collecting heads roll, but it will probably be peons who suffer. The bigwigs who orchestrated this scam will undoubtedly skate free.