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Addressing Government Waste and Unresponsive Representatives

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They tried taking his farm!

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The main speaker then introduces 'Tom' from Minnesota, who shares his frustrations with his state representative. He explains that she has been boycotting legislative sessions due to a shift in political majority. Tom points out examples of wasteful spending, such as costly flyers for the local community college sent to all county residents, including the elderly and those with existing college educations, amounting to 'waste tax dollar money' due to an '85-year-old's house' receiving unnecessary mail. He emphasizes that taxpayers are paying for services and representation they are not receiving, equating this to a 'waste' of taxpayer funds.

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now the Fourth Amendment clearly states that the right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures that's our Fourth Amendment right in the Bill of Rights so when did it become reasonable to kick an 80-year-old man out of his own home because he's unable to pay property taxes year after year after year he didn't just pay him once this guy has been paying these property tax taxes over and over and over again to the point where now he's going to take out a loan to pay his own property tax when did that become reasonable I don't know and then the question is posed well at a certain age do we cut off property taxes to people and I say the question needs to be posed I paid taxes on it when I earned it I paid taxes on it when I spent it and now I got to pay taxes on this stuff that I bought I agree with paying property taxes for business property because you deduct that from your business expenses but I don't agree with paying property tax on something you've already been taxed on your tax three times on this it's ridiculous you're also if they can tax you and if you don't pay your taxes they can take away your land that's already paid for it you are no longer secure in your own personal possessions in your own personal property no not only will you get a lean placed on your property but you'll have fines interest and all that stuff you'll have all that so you better lawyer up now how how's a guy that has to get a loan to pay his taxes going to afford a lawy to lawyer up on it this is something we're going to I'm going to take to my county and we're going to have a serious discussion about it another thing every month I get a flyer from the local community college that comes out of the County's uh budget right each one of these flyers probably cost I don't know $3 to make and a dollar to to mail so $4 per month goes to every single resident in my county of wasted tax dollar money this is going to an 85-year-old's house uh a flyer for the local community College it's going to uh people that are already have college educations people that are never going to go to college it's just a waste an absolute waste so there's so much waste going on and that they they spend our tax dollars like it's like it's on fire like they're allergic to it so you

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