The Treasury Department has quietly begun targeting taxpayers for their parents’ debts, most of which are due to public assistance program overpayment errors made decades ago.
IRS Policing Decades-Old Errors Better Than Dark Money
April 15, 2014

Via Breitbart Unmasked:

Call it further proof that America is trapped in a doom-loop of oligarchy. Whereas poor people have no lobbyists in Washington, America’s billionaires never have a problem being heard. In our brave new world where money is speech, they are the only ones being heard at all, so the system has begun to reflect some highly skewed priorities. For example, contradicting centuries of legal tradition, the Treasury Department has quietly begun targeting taxpayers for their parents’ debts, most of which are due to public assistance program overpayment errors made dec...

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