So, I generally disagree with libertarians (especially, the 25-year-old white male type who know nothing about the economy and have never met a poor person who

So, I generally disagree with libertarians (especially, the 25-year-old white male type who know nothing about the economy and have never met a poor person who tend to show up on HN) and one of those grating libertarian tropes is that government is essentially an extortionate body, insofar as it demands payment for non-refusable services and punishes those who do not pay. Now, in general, I would find this argument to be very silly. However, this sort of behavior makes that "silly" libertarian smear appear to be, in fact, entirely spot-on. All of this, the extreme pursuit of small debts, the tacking-on of "legal fees" to skirt usury/extortion laws, and the transfer of debt to more vicious investors (who are more likely to engage in usury, extortion, et al) is textbook mob shit.