EL PASO, Texas -- "If you go in and renew your license plate right now and you owe money for child support, he nabs you," said El Paso County Commissioner Dan Haggerty. FYI child support records are notoriously unreliable, and simple modifications can take months, if not years.

2010-09-20T03:58:07+00:00

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Andrewticus04 · 2010-09-20T10:25:16+00:00

This is terrible. Dan Haggerty justifies denying people the ability to drive to work by saying it will prevent more property taxes!

First off, the people this is going to hurt the most are the people who do not have the funds to pay for child support, let alone a house. So they'd effectively be milking a poor man for all he's worth, while the real estate investor fucks the poor man's ex-wife in one of his seven houses. Instead of paying pennies on the dollar, he's now getting baby-momma money from some guy that was defrauded by a slut with deplorable morals.

Furthermore, if these people can't get to work, then how are they expected to pay the fees? Take the bus? That costs even more in the long run, especially when you consider that these fees compound! It's utterly bewildering!

Also, if balancing the budget was such a big problem, couldn't they do it the good old-fashioned way and eliminate some of their overhead? Oh wait, they can't do that! That means they'll have to surrender some of their budget for next year. Ra forbid, the cops stop wasting government money and become efficient. Of course, why do that when you can exploit people already in a shitty position? It's not like they can fight back or anything.

Finally, this claim of saving on property tax is complete bullshit. As far as I am concerned, it's completely conjecture and political maneuvering. "Well I could raise taxes, so you should feel lucky that I am only buttfucking the poor. They don't vote anyway," is effectively what he was saying. Besides, there is no negative ledger for fines - that's not how governments do their accounting. So basically this $15M is simply a bullshit figure that means nothing as far as departmental budgets go. Sure, it's what was currently owed, but there's no telling if that was going to be paid off or not. It's just another way to line their pockets. Speaking of, did you see the commissioners just bought some $50M building for their new offices? They say that won't require any tax increase, funny enough. I like how the sleazy cocksuckers threaten to raise taxes to scare voters into allowing this bullshit to happen, when clearly the coffers are abundant enough to afford new offices at no expense.

Let me describe an organization for you: They keep tabs on you and your income.

They take a cut of your income to "protect" you.

If you don't pay up, they threaten you with violence to your person.

They regulate industries to create falsely inflated markets.

They create schemes that force you into compounding debt.

They have been known to murder people for non-compliance.

They take your money and give it to their friends that blow their cash.

They lie, cheat, steal and maliciously hurt people to maintain authority.

They protect their own, and when caught doing something bad, they look the other way.

It's funny how similar this organization is to both a mafia and our government. It's almost like they're the same thing.

TLDR: Move on, it's just a rant about how foul our government can be.

2010-09-20T13:22:05+00:00

Then toss the licensce and drive carefully.

Sarstan · 2010-09-20T03:35:55+00:00

Funny how viciously they'll seek out child support payments that are already ruining a man's life, but they don't seem to have such bravado about drug dealers, murders, and corporate heads who are evading taxes and/or using tax loopholes.

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