{"id":141841,"date":"2023-05-27T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141841"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:57:37","slug":"a-victory-for-the-little-folks-in-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141841","title":{"rendered":"A victory for the little folks in MN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112522 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/minnesota-riot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/minnesota-riot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/minnesota-riot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/minnesota-riot-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY that<del datetime=\"2023-05-26T16:35:19+00:00\"> Somaliland<\/del> Minnesota overstepped its bounds when they ruled that Hennepin County, MN <del datetime=\"2023-05-26T16:35:19+00:00\">stole<\/del> unlawfully withheld compensation after seizing now-94 Geraldine Tyler&#8217;s condo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tyler, who now lives in an apartment building for older people, owed $2,300 in unpaid taxes, plus interest and penalties totalling $15,000, when the county took title to the one-bedroom apartment in 2015. The county said she did nothing to hold onto her one-time residence. The apartment sold the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota is among roughly a dozen states and the District of Columbia that allow local jurisdictions to keep the excess money, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, a not-for-profit public interest law firm focused on property rights that represented Tyler at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>At least 8,950 homes were sold because of unpaid taxes and the former owners received little or nothing in those states between 2014 and 2021, according to Pacific Legal.<\/p>\n<p>The other states are: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and South Dakota, the group said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/national-international\/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-minnesota-woman-who-got-0-when-county-took-and-sold-her-condo\/3159878\/\">NBC Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ignoring that penalties on unpaid taxes should never quintuple the original bill, in essence they seized her home, sold it to pay unpaid taxes, and kept the entire sales amount instead of merely satisfying the tax bill and giving her the balance of the proceeds. (Quick math says her original tax bill was on the order of 6% of the proceeds.) I see no problem with them chasing unpaid taxes &#8211; apparently she had lived in the condo since 1999, and then moved to a one bedroom apartment in a senior community and stopped paying taxes on the house. Fair enough &#8211; she should have taken steps to pay the taxes or unload the house. But taking ALL the money?<\/p>\n<p>Glad to see this decision. Now I am looking forward to seeing a decision on civil asset forfeiture. Originally proposed as a tool against drug dealers, that has morphed into a multi-million dollar state theft ring in &#8216;way too many states. Think you are free? Look at that state list above, look at the higher profile civil asset forfeiture and eminent domain cases, and try to justify them. I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY that Somaliland Minnesota overstepped its bounds when they ruled that &hellip; <a title=\"A victory for the little folks in MN!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141841\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A victory for the little folks in MN!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}