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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill of Rights? Never heard of it.
There was once a thing called Due Process. It used to be part of a thing called The Bill of Rights. It had other quaint notions like Presumption of Innocence, Probable Cause, etc.
But hey, our duly-elected bureaucrats are just living up to what We The People expect of them.
US seizing tax refunds of children over parents' debt?!
Jake Novak | @jakejakeny
Friday, 11 Apr 2014 | 11:07 AM ET
CNBC.com
The government is now going through old records to see if it overpaid people on Social Security. If it thinks it did, it can now seize the IRS tax refund checks of the CHILDREN of those people it thinks it overpaid.
This isn't a proposalit's already happening. For the past three years, the government has been confiscating hundreds of thousands of Americans' tax refunds, according to the Washington Post. It has already confiscated $1.9 billion in tax refunds this year alone.
The amazing thing is that the government is doing this even if it has little or no proof and no exact details. And the letters the government sends to unsuspecting taxpayers are frightening, use accusatory language, and include other financial threats.
"They gave me no notice, they can't prove that I received any overpayment, and they use intimidation tactics, threatening to report this to the credit bureaus," Mary Grice, who had her tax refunds seized a few weeks ago, is quoted as saying.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101576080
Jake Novak | @jakejakeny
Friday, 11 Apr 2014 | 11:07 AM ET
CNBC.com
The government is now going through old records to see if it overpaid people on Social Security. If it thinks it did, it can now seize the IRS tax refund checks of the CHILDREN of those people it thinks it overpaid.
This isn't a proposalit's already happening. For the past three years, the government has been confiscating hundreds of thousands of Americans' tax refunds, according to the Washington Post. It has already confiscated $1.9 billion in tax refunds this year alone.
The amazing thing is that the government is doing this even if it has little or no proof and no exact details. And the letters the government sends to unsuspecting taxpayers are frightening, use accusatory language, and include other financial threats.
"They gave me no notice, they can't prove that I received any overpayment, and they use intimidation tactics, threatening to report this to the credit bureaus," Mary Grice, who had her tax refunds seized a few weeks ago, is quoted as saying.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101576080
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Bill of Rights? Never heard of it. (Original Post)
Nuclear Unicorn
Apr 2014
OP
You'd think those creating and enforcing the policy would be sufficiently aware of the BoR
Nuclear Unicorn
Apr 2014
#3
elleng
(130,964 posts)1. If/when people (victims of this 'policy,) complain,
I expect the Bill of Rights will be discussed.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)2. Thats right "Sins of the Father" and all that. n/t
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)4. Once upon a time we had a Bill of rights.
Now we just get the bill --
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)3. You'd think those creating and enforcing the policy would be sufficiently aware of the BoR
that they would never propose such policies in the first place.
It increasingly seems it is not about, "How do we serve the people?" rather more along the lines of, "What can we get away with today?"