Hey Werewolf, we'll just start by saying you don't know what the *expletive deleted*ck you're talking about, and then we'll quantify it by saying...
What do you think happens to your home if you don't pay your local property taxes?
A lien is placed on the property and eventually it's sold at sheriff's sale. Plus, you can end up going to jail.
What happens if you don't pay your income taxes? You run the risk of become the bum buddy of some guy in either the state or federal prison system. Plus, the government puts what amounts to a lien on your wages -- a garnishment -- until you've fulfilled your responsibilities.
But what it looks like you're trying to tell us is that you actually favor people reneging on their obligations, and essentially getting a free ride on the backs of those who are adult enough and responsible enough to fulfill the contracts into which they've entered.
Let me guess, you're a member of the Demo "Lazy people truly deserve a free ride on the backs of the industrious" cratic Party.
No one in my community held a gun to the woman's head and said "HEY BITCH! YOU'RE GOING TO BUY THIS HOUSE!" when she signed on the dotted line. She entered into the contract willingly.
We even attempted to communicate with her numerous times over the issue. Personal conversations, letters, letters from the attorney... Let us know what's going on and maybe we can work something out... She would never even respond to you when you addressed her directly.
These claims that HOAs are nothing more than a return to Soviet style politics shows just how little people actually know about HOAs, how much power the INDIVIDUAL homeowner can exercise in his/her HOA, and how HOAs are, in many cases, a far more indicative of a representative republic than government in general.
These calls are usually made by people who, if they did live in an HOA, would likely be far too lazy to become involved in the running of the HOA, preferring instead to bitch, moan, and whine.
The only person who should be whipped is you, for prescribing to the "God favors the shiftless, lazy, and indolent, and it's my responsibility to support the shifty, lazy, and indolent by shelling more money out of my own pocket" theory of social interaction.
THAT theory, son, is FAR close to the Soviet theory of government, but it's not at all surprising that you neither knew that nor understood it.