A Pennsylvania judge ruled that it's perfectly OK for state tax authorities to have sold a widow's home at auction because she failed to pay a $6.30 tax bill. Bloomberg: A widow was given ample notice before her $280,000 house was sold at a tax auction three years ago over $6.30 in unpaid interest, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled. The decision last week turned down Eileen Battisti's request to reverse the September 2011 sale of her home outside Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania. "I paid everything, and didn't know about the $6.30," Battisti said. "For the house to be sold just because of $6.30 is crazy." Mrs. Battisti has discovered the essence of government. Crazy is as crazy does and. as the judge explains, when the tax bureaucrats dot all the "i's" and cross all the "t's" there's nothing anyone can do to stop them: There is no doubt that (she) had actual receipt of the notification of the tax...(Read Full Post)