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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (53170)	9/11/2013 11:31:00 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 85487

Legal, doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a problem, but it does mean you shouldn't toss people in jail for 20 years for it. If its legal and shouldn't be then the law should be changed, but ex-post facto laws, punishing people for when the act was legal, are unconstitutional and otherwise problematic. Notice in this case its the government who has the lean. They farm off collections (and much of the profits) to some private actor, but there the ones who set up the situation in the first place. Sure the private collector is acting like a major a-hole but the DC government is the body that set up the "lose your hose over $134 bill" situation.

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