It is “unseemly” for the County to keep any tax auction proceeds over the amount of taxes owed. Post 18

Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS™

I’m running across more information regarding the legalized plundering of our people. In the name of “the law”politicians are stealing our property.

I edited this article. The story is a sad one. Our government feels that is can do anything it wants just by passing a law. I truly do not know where that philosophy comes from however no one asks this question. “Where does the explicit authority come from to pass this law?”

Are there any limits to passing laws?

In today’s culture where “anything goes,” in this philosophy, no, there are no practical limits to making a law. A lawyer/legislator will connive, wangle, slither and slime their way into your pocketbook, controlling your life, your liberty and your property.

This is precisely why the Founders insisted upon a gold backed currency. They knew, from history, that an ungrounded currency was an open door to gross over spending and therefore high taxes and, most importantly, control by the elite.

Please do not be fooled – the statements of the miscreant political class says things that seem like they are “wanting to do good.” Politicians create their grandiose programs with the sure knowledge that these programs create patronage jobs that the politician controls. He gets the power and the glory, you pay the bill.

And if you cannot pay the property tax bill – you lose your property! What a country!!!

Government overreach is the reason that the Founders insisted upon a strong 2nd Amendment.

They knew that the greatest thief in history is government, through taxation and control. Only an armed citizenry can defend itself against the “legalized plunder” as instituted by the greatest thieves in history.

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Democrat and Chronicle

James Goodman, Staff writer – May 2 –

Krystina Hetelekides learned this week that missing a deadline in Ontario County can have a high price. Hetelekides, who was more than two years behind in her taxes, ended up paying at auction more than seven times what she owed to get her restaurant back. Ontario County will keep the difference.

Hetelekides’ Akropolis Family Restaurant, owed $21,343 in back taxes when the Jan. 12 deadline arrived.

Because the county wouldn’t budge on that deadline, the restaurant was auctioned by the county Wednesday.

When the bidding ended, a distant relative of Hetelekides bought it for her at $160,000. Friends and family, along with a loan from the Canandaigua National Bank and Trust Co., will help Hetelekides keep her restaurant.

Ontario County officials say they are only enforcing state law and the county regulation that set Jan. 12 as the deadline for paying back taxes.

“What does a deadline mean? It means it’s the last day to pay,” said Gary Curtiss, assistant attorney for Ontario County.

Last year, the county made $210,000. The net profit from the annual auctions has been as much as $325,000 in recent years.

For all 28 of the delinquent tax properties auctioned Wednesday, Ontario County received bids of $579,345. The taxes owed on these properties were $100,530 as of January. The money will amount to revenue for the county’s general fund.

(My note) A Federal court has called this practice, “unseemly.”

But if Hetelekides’ restaurant were in Wayne County, NY she could have paid the back taxes up to the auction date.

And if her restaurant were in Rochester, NY she would have found a government that won’t keep more than it was owed. In Rochester, when the property of a delinquent taxpayer is sold, the city takes just the money owed and any expenses.

After any money claimed by creditors is taken, the city returns what’s left to the former property owner. (That is the way it should be.)

See Coach Mitch’s “Ridiculously Simple System…” ™ for details.

Hoping for justice –