reply to post by getreadyalready
Excellent post. As another case in point - not on the level of life and limb but the same head in the sand behavior. .. A friend of mine is an
attorney and she was targeted by her assessors for a hugely inflated valuation of her house. Her property taxes were double what everyone else's
were in the town. Now keep in mind this is not a big time partner in a law firm defending corporations- she represents the poor. She uncovered a
hugely corrupt property tax system where laws were being blatantly broken and anyone the assessors didn't like was paying a hefty price while
assessors themselves were lowering their own taxes down to single digits. She won her case in court and the assessors continued to target her for
FIVE years. She took this further and discovered that this type of homegrown terrorism is going on nationwide. Wrote a book exposing it- Are You
Getting Screwed On Your Property Taxes? How To Find Out and How To Fix It. In my naivety I thought, 'Wow, this is going to be a best-seller. People
are finally going to get a clue and demand this horribly corrupt property tax system which effects everyone will be reformed or abolished. Didn't
happen. The book sold some, more people took their cases to court, and legislators buried the issue. Everyone else stuck their head in the sand. If
it wasn't directly happening to them, they didn't care; and if it was directly happening to them they didn't want to know.


That's why it took a few days to compile, and is a little choppy in places. I did it between a thousand other interruptions..... and
furthermore, I do work for the government afterall!
