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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2463146, member: 76194"]That almost sounds like the one time the State of Florida sent me a rude letter because they had determined I had underpaid some sales taxes I owed them by 25 cents. They spent 44 cents in postage, plus the cost of the envelope and paper and ink for the letter to demand 25 cents. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of phone calls later, in which i had to listen to threats from rude state employees about what could happen if I didn't pay them their 25 cents, which I was contesting as absurd, and a few additional threatening letters later, I finally caved in like a spineless blob of Jello and sent them a check for $0.25 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>They probably spent $100 in wages for their employees, postage, ink and paper, in order to collect my 25 cents. I figured if they wanted it that bad, 25 cents wasn't worth the hassle of costing the tax payers $4,000 to prosecute me and the thousands more that it would cost the state to send me to prison over 25 cents, not to mention that I wasn't ready to spend a week's vacation in prison over 25 cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2463146, member: 76194"]That almost sounds like the one time the State of Florida sent me a rude letter because they had determined I had underpaid some sales taxes I owed them by 25 cents. They spent 44 cents in postage, plus the cost of the envelope and paper and ink for the letter to demand 25 cents. :( A couple of phone calls later, in which i had to listen to threats from rude state employees about what could happen if I didn't pay them their 25 cents, which I was contesting as absurd, and a few additional threatening letters later, I finally caved in like a spineless blob of Jello and sent them a check for $0.25 cents. They probably spent $100 in wages for their employees, postage, ink and paper, in order to collect my 25 cents. I figured if they wanted it that bad, 25 cents wasn't worth the hassle of costing the tax payers $4,000 to prosecute me and the thousands more that it would cost the state to send me to prison over 25 cents, not to mention that I wasn't ready to spend a week's vacation in prison over 25 cents.[/QUOTE]
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