Can debtors' prisons be far behind?
Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family — it’s not sure who — in 1977. After 37 years of silence, four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. ...
The government doesn’t look into exactly who got the overpayment; the policy is to seek compensation from the oldest sibling and work down through the family until the debt is paid.
How is this legal? In what world are minor children responsible for what their parents did?
And worse, for what their parents received from the government without any proof that even the parents knew there was a problem?
Have we really gotten to the point where we have to smear lamb's blood on our door frames to make sure Treasury passes us over?
One more reason that the federal government is just too big.
Tip to Instapundit.
