When does a $50 debt become cause for the owed to take the home of the ower? When you owe $50 to the government, whose predacious debt collection practices would make Shylock blush and the mafia take note.

In 2004, an agent of the city of Milwaukee issued a $50 parking violation to Peter Tubic. What's interesting about the citation is that it was for the alleged offense of Tubic illegally parking his SUV on his own property, if that's even possible. "Tubic first got the fine for parking his Ford E150 with no license plates in the driveway of the home, which belonged to his parents at the time," reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "The radiator had broken and Tubic couldn't get his plates renewed unless the van passed an emissions test. He didn't have the money to make the repair and had more pressing worries, he said." In other words, the state wouldn't allow him plates, which they then fined him for not displaying.

If a private lender were to alchemize a $50 debt into a $2,600 in less than four years, the government would declare it loan-sharking and place the usurous claim holder in jail. Now imagine what would happen to that hypothetical loan shark if he had the hubris to expropriate the lendee's home in lieu of payment? The situation is actually far worse than that, given that Milwaukee had no right to issue a public parking ticket on private property in the first place and that Tubic, in addition to dealing with the deaths of his parents, is mentally impaired and physically disabled. But you get the point.

The government operates outside the law. It does not live under the rules it enforces upon the people. As in so many cases where the state abuses the law, we ask: WWBS? What Would Bastiat Say? "But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." In this case, the law is not benefiting one citizen at the expense of another, but benefitting itself at the expense of a citizen by doing what it would deem a crime if done by a private entity. The state has a voracious appetite for your money. Always and everywhere, it wails: "Feed me!"

i think its time to cleanze gov't.