According to the Sentinel, four homes are scheduled to be stolen by the violent, monopolistic gang calling themselves the City of Keene. These families aren’t protesting taxes, they just can’t afford to pay them in the troubled economy. The city’s response? They are choosing to proceed with stealing the homes from these people and kicking them into the street.
If you’ve been listening to the Talkback archives here on FreeKeene, you know that city councilor Cynthia Georgina has until this point refused to believe that families will be tossed out of their homes for nonpayment of property taxes. Now she can no longer deny it, as the Sentinel reveals the ugly process that will happen to you too if you don’t pay the gang:
According to Revenue Collector Alther, the city must first give a home’s occupants an eviction notice and can then decide whether to hold the property or sell it.
If the city puts the property on the market — which Landry said officials intend to do in these cases — the former owners have the first right to buy it back for a period of three years, according to Alther.
Money from the sale will reimburse the city for the back taxes, interest and any additional costs the city racks up through the lien and seizure process, she said.
Landry said these costs can include legal fees and the expense of holding the property and said the city can also claim from the sale a state-defined penalty of 15 percent of the assessed value.
Any money left over after the city’s reimbursed goes to the court system, which first distributes it to any other lien holders, and then to the former property owners.
Alther predicted the owners of at least two of the properties will pay before Friday’s deadline.
But, she said, simply paying their 2005 bills only buys them a short amount of time until the deeding process for 2006’s property taxes begins in May.
As of Wednesday, the Keene resident who spoke with The Sentinel said he didn’t know what he was going to do.
If he loses his house, he said, “There isn’t a Plan B.”
It’s okay, government cares. Surely they’ll allow this man and his family onto the welfare program. In fact, as more people become unable to pay the insane property taxes here in Keene, they can all just go on welfare. Of course, then they’ll have to raise taxes even more, putting more people into the streets and onto welfare, until all but the elite of Keene can afford to live here.
When will these government people stop aggressing against their peaceful neighbors? How many families are they willing to put in the streets to protect their precious system?
What will you do about it?
