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#Bestof2023: EVENT OF THE BIDEN RE-ELECT: #SCOTUS: Private property and the tax collector. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#Bestof2023: EVENT OF THE BIDEN RE-ELECT: #SCOTUS: Private property and the tax collector. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/home-equity-theft-tax-collector
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0:00.0

Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with fixer. Since you never got

0:04.5

Ranta servicing it, I took care of it. Fixed up? Fixed up. Fixed is great. They pick

0:08.2

up your car, drive it to the garage, handle the service, then drive it straight back

0:11.1

to you. Sounds expensive? Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their partner

0:14.8

garages and the car pickup services included. So since that's all handled, how about you

0:18.9

take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? For easy car maintenance,

0:23.3

head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of all the rest. Fixed up

0:28.6

and you're back on track.

0:29.6

This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor, case before the United States Supreme

0:39.2

Court, Tyler versus Hennepin County. It turns on Geraldine Tyler, 94 years old, who fell

0:47.0

behind in her property taxes. So far behind because of unusual fees, advanced by the county,

0:55.0

but her property was eventually seized and sold. The taxes were paid off, no matter

1:02.1

how high they were, but there was a leftover. The county kept the leftover. I welcome Professor

1:08.5

Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, he teaches law at NYU and the

1:13.2

University of Chicago, which had learned about this case in Reason Magazine. So we now turn

1:18.7

to what we're experiencing is something that is not, or not, not exceptional is routine,

1:25.6

but the logic of it is outrageous. Richard, when I first read this, a very good evening

1:30.5

to you, when I first read this, I thought it was going to have a different outcome. I

1:34.0

thought, surely somebody is not going to persecute Geraldine Tyler. Is this something that happens

1:40.2

in all states or is it particular to this jurisdiction? And what do we make of the court

1:45.0

going to say this, the common sensical, you, you shall not seize the, the bounty of a woman's

1:52.0

sale. Good evening to you. Yeah, well, I fortunately, most states have actually reversed the

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