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In reply to the discussion: If Your Parents Can’t Pay Their Bills, You May Have To [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I've been estranged from my parents for over 25 years. When I had just turned 22 and moved back to PA, I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently my father paid for my college graduation gift by listing me as a 1099 employee at his company. He took my "wages" and left me with the tax bill, including interest, penalties and threat of jail!
Of course, the entire extended family hates me because I'm so "spoiled" and don't appreciate all they did for me.
Fortunately, he's a resident of Az, my mother's gone, and both my sisters (the one he "disowned" and the "daddy's girl"
are in non-filial states, as am I.
By the time any laws get changed at the federal level, he'll be gone too.
But man do I feel for the rest of you. This is an outrage. What other 3rd world nightmares to they plan to foist on us?!? Seriously, is there any economy- and life-destroying action they won't try to shove down our throats?