#SCOTUS: Private property and the tax collector. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 11 February 2023
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#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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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor, case before the United States Supreme Court, |
| 0:40.4 | Tyler versus Hennepin County. It turns on Geraldine Tyler, 94 years old, who fell behind |
| 0:47.7 | in her property taxes. So far behind because of unusual fees advanced by the county that |
| 0:55.4 | her property was eventually sold, seized and sold. The taxes were paid off no matter |
| 1:02.4 | how high they were, but there was a leftover. The county kept the leftover. I welcome Professor |
| 1:08.8 | Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, he teaches law at NYU and the |
| 1:13.6 | University of Chicago, which had learned about this case in Reason Magazine. So we now turn |
| 1:19.0 | to what we're experiencing is something that is not, or not, not exceptional is routine, |
| 1:25.9 | but the logic of it is outrageous. Richard, when I first read this, a very good evening |
| 1:30.8 | to you, when I first read this, I thought it was going to have a different outcome. I |
| 1:34.4 | thought, surely somebody is not going to persecute Geraldine Tyler. Is this something that happens |
| 1:40.6 | in all states or is it particular to this jurisdiction? And what do we make of the court |
| 1:45.4 | going to say the common sensical, you shall not seize the bounty of a woman's sale? Good |
| 1:52.9 | evening to you. Yeah, well, I fortunately, most states have actually reversed the rule |
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