Wealthy SF residents to get private street back, despite skipping taxes

Re:Wealthy SF residents to get private street back, despite ... by chrisbennet on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:00AM (#15814875)

The gist of the responses seems to be that it is unfair that the home owners got treated in a reasonable fashion only because they had a senator to interceded on their behalf.

If instead, Grandma got evicted from her house because they stopped sending $14/yr tax bills to her because the address was wrong, would you think it was “fair”?

If the system is fked up, we shouldn’t be up in arms when someone gets treated reasonably. Instead, I’m hearing something analogous to “We shouldn’t pardon some innocent people on death row, it wouldn’t be fair to all the other innocent people on death row.”

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Re:Wealthy SF residents to get private street back, despite ... by joshribakoff on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:34AM (#15815942)

If a group of innocent millionaires on death row were to be pardoned while a group of innocent poor people were not pardoned that would definitely raise an eyebrow for me and it would be worth considering that maybe their innocence was not the motivating factor

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