One could ,make the argument that our government cannot take any property except for public use (eminent domain). While I know this is a radical thought for all those kooks, I mean lawyer, it is a fact that our Founders believed in and should be applied today. Otherwise, what we are living under is a tyrannical government that is not for the people or by the people, but has become for itself and separated from the public it is supposed to serve.
The fundamental duty of government is to preserve our rights of life, Liberty and Property. The government we are under today, fails to secure of these rights.
Milwaukee man faces foreclosure because he didn’t pay parking fine
The ticket went unpaid for four years, eventually amounting to $2,600 in fines
By RAQUEL RUTLEDGE Posted: Aug. 2, 2008
Peter Tubic ignored a $50 parking fine in 2004, and on Monday, it cost him his $245,000 house.
In what city officials believe is the first case of its kind, the city foreclosed on Tubic's house on W. Verona Court after repeated attempts to collect the fine - which over the years had escalated to $2,600 - had failed.
"Our goal isn't to acquire parcels," said Jim Klajbor, special deputy city treasurer. "Our goal is to just collect taxes. . . . It is only as a last resort that we would pursue . . . foreclosure."
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Richard Sankovitz technically stayed the judgment to give Tubic one last chance to explain why he hasn't paid or even responded, but Sankovitz ruled in favor of the city's foreclosure.
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