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California Krunch

Posted on12. Jan, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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Amongst my news reading yesterday (something I really haven’t done for a while), I saw that Californians are looking to move out of the state. Expenses and taxes are too high, jobs and wages are too few and costly. It’s very notable that the liberal/socialistic states that have taxed and spent for the past few [...]

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Woman’s Home Threatened Over 1 Cent Water Bill

Posted on20. Nov, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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UNBELIEVABLE!!! First, the story:
A 74-year-old blind woman was shocked when her daughter found a letter from the city saying a lien would be placed on her home unless she paid an overdue water bill.
The amount? 1 cent.
…The letter warned of a lien and a $48 penalty if the overdue bill is not paid by December [...]

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Oil-Rich Countries Nabbing US Homes

Posted on10. Aug, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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Couldn’t believe me eyes when I woke up to see this headline at the New York Post: LOST SOVEREIGNTY: Oil-Rich Fund Eyeing Foreclosed U.S. Homes. American mortgage brokers have been shopping– shopping for foreclosed American homes– on behalf of “sovereign funds” like Abu Dhabi, Norway, Singapore, and Kuwait. Unbelievable.
There’s a new land grab starting in [...]

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Home Taken Over Unpaid Parking Tix

Posted on04. Aug, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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Surprised? It’s happening again. A Milwaukee man is facing foreclosure on his $245,000 home because he wouldn’t pay a $50 parking ticket in 2004.
In what city officials believe is the first case of its kind, the city foreclosed on Tubic’s house on W. Verona Court after repeated attempts to collect the fine – which over [...]

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How to Create a Serfdom

Posted on28. Jun, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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Chief Justice John Marshall once said, “The power to tax is the power to destroy.” I’ll let that sink in for a minute.
I was at the gym a week or two ago and saw the most appalling “infomercial” I have ever seen in my life. (No, it wasn’t for maternity clothes or acne [...]