Property tax paid in singles

[tod evans]

From Faux-Newz

Pennsylvania man pays school property tax — all $7,143 of it — in $1 bills


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/06/pennsylvania-man-pays-school-property-tax-all-7143-it-in-1-bills/?test=latestnews


One, two ... 6,999, 7,000 ...
An Easton, Pa. man, frustrated over property taxes, visited the local tax office and paid in dollar bills -- all $7,143 of it.
One bill at a time.
Local news reports identify the man as Robert Fernandes of Forks Township.
The scene, posted on YouTube, has generated more than 15,600 views -- in less than a week.
In the video, Fernandes carries a duffel bag filled with bundled bills, which he proceeds to stack on a counter. He brings doughnuts, offered to "anyone who is inconvenienced here today."
The tax collector tells Fernandes his protest should probably be directed elsewhere, toward the school board, maybe, which is in charge of setting property tax rates.
"I'm not doing this to make anybody's life more difficult," Fernandes tells the collector. "Unfortunately, I wish the same could be said, you know, for me and many others whose lives are more difficult for having to pay property taxes."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kPRGblJTPRE

[jbauer]

That's great, he should probably expect a SWAT raid on his house real soon. If I were him I'd look into a bullet proof vest for his dog.

[shane77m]

Always be slaves until property taxes are gone.

[donnay]

If he paid in pennies they would have had gone apoplectic!

"A penny saved is a penny earned." ~ Benjamin Franklin

[shane77m]

He is lucky he didn't get pulled over on the way to pay his taxes. The police would have went nutts finding all of the cash on him.

[Tod]

He is lucky he didn't get pulled over on the way to pay his taxes. The police would have went nutts finding all of the cash on him.

Yeah! Double burn: have the cash confiscated under the assumption that it is drug money, and then STILL OWE property taxes.

[otherone]

AWESOME!
That's my hometown representing!

[Grubb556]

Well you have to accept his money right ?

[shane77m]

Also always be slaves while being taxed to breathe. Thank you Obamacare.

[seraphson]

Property tax is just another top contender of taxes that are the ideological antithesis of what America was supposed to be about i.e. liberty, freedom, private property, individuality, etc.
You don't own land here. You rent it. Don't pay the rent/serfdom tax? Don't plan on staying on "your" property for long before the best equipped stormtroopers your tax dollars can buy come a' knockin'.

[fr33]

Even better:


'Sovereign citizen' pays fines with 70,000 pennies (http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/335451/58/Sovereign-citizen-pays-fines-with-70000-pennies)


Fourteen months and about 70,000 pennies later, James Sanders has finally paid off a pair of citations he received last summer in Clinton County.

After more than a year of unsuccessfully fighting the charges filed against him on Aug. 10, 2012, for speeding and refusing to identify himself to police, Sanders made the trip from his Mulberry home to the Clinton County Courthouse to pay his $702 fine.

But the most difficult part of paying the fine wasn't coping with the impact it might have on his budget. It was figuring out how to carry it from the car to the courthouse.

"As far as I'm concerned, they are stealing this money from me," Sanders said. "If they want it, this is how they are going to get it."

Using only change - primarily pennies with a few quarters and nickels thrown in for good measure - Sanders paid his fine with the goal of making the county officials "work for it."

This isn't the first time this year Sanders has used change to pay off a ticket. On Feb. 28, he used a box full of dollar coins, pennies and dimes to settle a $153 ticket in Tippecanoe County.

He did the same thing a few months later in Jackson County, paying off a ticket of about $150.

But last week's payment was Sanders' largest coin-only transaction to date. Using two large buckets and a utility dolly usually used for moving furniture, Sanders and a neighbor loaded up the coins and carted them into the courthouse.

Sanders' unusual way of handling tickets stems from the fact that he considers himself a "sovereign man" or a "freeman" - an ideology that asserts that American-born citizens answer only to independent authority and not the government.

He began considering the way of life a few years back after his son received a speeding ticket.

Common law is typically used to justify why sovereign citizens believe they are exempt from certain rules and regulations.

Sanders adds that he is not part of any larger sovereign citizen movement or group and does not support acts of violence.

"I believe in obeying the law. I don't make up my own laws. I read the law and I follow it. That's it," he said. "I don't believe the code was written for me, though. My main law is God's law and I will always obey God's law. And the only movement I belong to is the republic for the United States of America. That's what I belong to."


Clinton County Clerk Sherri Crews declined to comment on the incident because she was away at a conference when Sanders came in. Plus, despite the manner of payment, Sanders' fine was like any other.

In fact, staff members in the courthouse Wednesday hardly flinched and remained professional when Sanders stepped off the elevator and rolled his coins into the clerk's office just 10 minutes before they closed for the day.

Once he was inside, staff members explained that because they do not have the manpower to count the thousands of pennies, they would accompany Sanders to a nearby bank to have the coins counted and converted.

That afternoon, they went to Regions Bank and Farmers Bank, but because of how late in the business day it was, it was decided that Sanders would return to the courthouse the next morning to handle the conversion.

After a lot of talking, counting and sorting early Thursday, the coins became cash and Sanders' fine was logged as paid in full. Sanders said he had about $690 converted into dollar bills at his bank, and the clerk's office only took about $10 worth of loose change.

In the end, Sanders may not have gotten the reaction he was looking for, but he vows to continue to defend his way of life.

"The last time in Jackson County I had five police officers show up. I don't know why they showed up. And when I told them they had to accept it, the clerk drove 30 miles to pick it up," Sanders said. "They've caught on to it."

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