The Government Will Take Your Money For Your Dead Parent's Debts

[JayhawkSD]

22. Except that the article inaccurately references "parents' old debts."

The text of the article is somewhat more accurate than the headline, in that it describes the original payment as death benefits, but it manages to leave the impression that the benefit was paid to Mary Grice's mother rather than, as is actually the case, directly to her. As has been discussed elsewhere, it is unreasonable and unfair to collect overpayment which was made to a child 30+ years after the fact, but the fact remains that the government is collecting her debt, not her parents' debt.

"Who keeps records that far back?" Which is, of course, the whole point of the statute of limitations, along with fading memories and the availability of witnesses, and is precisely why the statute should not have been increased beyond ten years.

"And apparently the ten year statute of limitation being dropped was inserted into a farm bill three years ago, and nobody knows who did it?" Yes, appalling. Too much nasty legislation is passed by inserting "riders" into "must pass" legislation; items which could never pass on their own merits and which are totally unrelated to the bill to which they are attached, but which get passed unnoticed as "add ons" in critical bills which cannot be voted down. The authorship of the rider is deliberately left off, for obvious reasons. It is a monstously corrupt practice which is as common as wheels on a freight train, and is but one small symptom of the sewer of corruption that our government has deteriorated into.