In this week when we remember how much government takes from us, we should also remember what they do with that money. In this case study, what they did was harrass and imprison a man who most people would say hadn’t committed a crime at all.
John Pozsgai came to the US from communist Hungary in 1956. He worked as a mechanic to support himself, his ailing wife and his two daughters. In the 1980s, Mr. Pozsgai lived in an industrial area of Morrisville, PA, across the road from a landfill site. His property was bordered by major roads, a tire dealership and an illegal auto dump. In 1987, he bought the property on which the dump rested and proceeded to clean it up, removing 7000 tires and innumerable rusted auto parts. He prepared to add clean fill and topsoil to complete the cleanup of the site.
