07-15-2013, 06:10 AM
quote:
Originally posted by PauHana
If a guy in Japan (or Pahoa for that matter) owns a lot he can't unload for $5,000 and the County sends him a bill for $99,000. for cutting the trees, then the County will end up owning it. With the trees gone they might get $5,000, or maybe not, but taxpayers are still out $94,000 + or -.
Unintended consequences!
Sometime when you go around swinging a club you hit yourself in the head.
I'm thinking that the $100,000 and $99,000 figures quoted were heavy on sarcasm and not to be taken literally.