Emboldened, the IRS and Treasury Departments are seizing taxpayer's refunds for decades old debts, even from the debts of their parents.

A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later, when she got a letter saying that her refund had gone to satisfy an old debt to the government — a very old debt.

When Grice was 4, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise. Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grice got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe them.
Now, Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family — it’s not sure who — in 1977. After 37 years of silence, four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. Why the feds chose to take Mary’s money, rather than her surviving siblings’, is a mystery.

I'd like to see the law that surely exists that allows the government to assault the finances of the children of people who they think owed them money.   I wonder down how many generations they can chase the money they claim they are owed?

On the other hand, the government does have some big bills to pay, like for the welfare and education and at times the incarceration of so many million of illegal Democrat voters from south of the border.  I guess it is seen by the bureaucrats as more efficient to hassle the descendants for the (arguable) debts of their ancestors, than actually address squarely the reasons for the country's deficit.