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Glen Kristi Goldenthal, 89, despite suffering from Alzheimer’s, has maintained her own home for years in New Jersey and done so without incident. Despite her illness, Goldenthal has remembered to pay the government the taxes they demand every year — most of them, anyway. In 2019, this innocent grandmother underpaid her bill by $0.06, a nickel and a penny, which created the perfect statist storm.

Because the state claims the authority to force you to pay them for property you own, if you are late paying them, they will add on fees and interest that send your bill skyrocketing. Case in point is the fact that Goldenthal’s unpaid bill of 6 cents, snowballed into a more than $300 bill. If you hadn’t done the math yet, that is an increase of over 5,000 times the original amount owed.

Since Goldenthal suffers from Alzheimer’s, she didn’t understand when the city called her and told her that her home was now being put up for auction — over a nickel and a penny.