Tax Protest: Canadian Normand Czepial Ponies up 200,000 Canadian Pennies to Pay Property Tax

by the Left Coast Rebel

This story may hail from Canada, tucked away in the 'weird news' section where I found it, but if anything to me; it is a teachable moment against coercive taxation:

RIPON, Que. - A Quebec man, fed up with his skyrocketing property taxes, carted more than 200,000 pennies down to City Hall to pay his bill. But he was denied, and asked to simply cut a cheque.

Normand Czepial of Ripon, Que. — less than an hour's drive northeast of Gatineau — arrived at City Hall on Wednesday with a children's pool filled with 213,625 pennies.

Readers may be contemplating, why didn't this guy just pay his property tax? What's the big deal, his bill couldn't have risen that much.

Just how much do you think Normand Czepial's property tax rise in one year?

How does almost 200% sound?:

Czepial's property tax bill reportedly rose by nearly $4,000 dollars last year to $6,400.

It's really fitting when you think about it. In the Once Golden State many of the myriad taxes and regulations 'for our own good' actually end up nickel-and-diming the middle class to death, achieving the precise opposite of that which they purport to do and make life generally unhappy, unliveable for folks of normal means.

Perhaps the term should be penny-and-nickelling to death.

Every time a big-governemt type proposes a robber-barron scheme, it always comes with the sales pitch that, 'it's only this teeny little amount, what's the big deal?' But when you add up pennies, nickels and dimes taken from you (and often tucked away from sight), you end up with a society that inhibits upward mobility (and that's just what they want - it's called a permanent dependent class).

Moving back to the Canadian-penny story, like any socialized, Obamanation-Bureaucracy --- 'there's a law against that':

Under the Currency Act, nobody is obliged to accept more than 25 pennies as payment for any product or service. Normand Czepial, unfortunately, was 213,600 over the limit.

Pathetic.

Cross posted to Rational Nation, Proof Positive, Left Coast Rebel.