The only thing certain in Death – is Taxes. Post 46

NewTimesLive Danbury, Connecticut

Liens on elderly would be mistake

(letter to the editor)

It seems Kevin Cleary, Bethel Board of Finance chairman, is proposing a tax lien be put on the property of the elderly who receive a tax break on the real estate they own.

I can see it now, as the elderly deceased person is being lowered into the ground, Mr. Cleary is handing a back tax bill to the survivors.

Mr. Cleary should be thinking about a tax freeze for all taxpayers over 70 or having taxpayers 65 and older not pay any portion of the school budget. People of this age thought Social Security would be enough to live off in retirement. Give them a break!

Being a Democrat, he is in the tax-raising mode. If you can’t tax them while alive, tax them in their grave. They should write that on their political signs.

Young and old should make their annoyance known to Mr. Cleary. Don’t sit back and see taxation after death.

Tom Peters

BETHEL

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Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS

The only thing certain in Death is Taxes.

It is not clear to me what this tax is about.

Many communities give a tax break to seniors, usually about 10%. It is the intent of this tax to recapture the tax break that was given; similar to recapturing depreciation? This is not justified.

If this was a tax lien to be attached for nonpayment of taxes or other monies due, then it would be justified.

However, this is a tax recapture. What a joke!

But, in today’s society, which has no real sense of any constitutional boundaries, some people see no problem with removing a legal tax deduction and then reclaiming the back tax. This is the ultimate in “living Constitution” manipulation. This is the philosophy that our Constitution has no limits to its elasticity and must conform to current feelings, versus Jefferson’s and Madison’s ideas, to severely limit our legislator’s ability to make law “by the chains of a Constitution.”

Please look up “Ex Post Facto” law. Generally speaking, ex post facto laws are seen as a violation of the rule of law as it applies in a free and democratic society because it is rightfully seen that laws passed after the fact is not reasonable.  See Article 1, Section 9 – US Constitution. It says “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”

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

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