I Heard It On The NARN
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Here’s Abby Wolters website. She’s running in the special primary on
January 14, and the special election on January 28, for control of the
Minnesota Senat...
Florida is More Conservative than Kansas…
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Let that sink in. Why do I say that? Because abortion on demand failed here
tonight. It passed in more rural states like Kansas. Legalization of
recreation...
Man-talking
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Whenever I come across this Norman Rockwell painting, I always think of the
times in the 1960s when my grandfather would take me with him around the
holida...
2018 – A BLOGGING SABBATICAL
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To my surprise, I have not written anything here in a year. I know that
blogging is such less popular than it was 10 years ago, but still, it is
surprising...
The Babylonian Trick
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The estimable Hans Fiene, the pastor behind Lutheran Satire, puts a name to
a particular and time-honored technique for violating religious liberty.
He ca...
Personal and lectionary
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I have been trying to move this place around, and things have got messy. At
present I’m restoring the backup Continue Reading
Conan, what is best in life?
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Conan, what is best in life?
"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations
of their women."
One party works that way.
The oth...
New Year Greetings
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We’ve enjoyed having our whole family home for the holidays this year.
After a very busy fall, it has been good to come to a screeching halt and
just enjo...
The Reckoning
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Harassing a woman is awful.
And believe it or not it's not lawful.
The gropers are paying.
'Cause the mobs are a-baying.
Damn sure they'll be getting their c...
The Needle in the Haystack
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An Expose of Climate Model Error - an easily digested talk on the errors in
climate modeling and how they aren't handled correctly...
Week 1 NFC North QB ratings
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Since most contributors to this blog root passionately for an NFL squad
within the NFC North division, it's the only division that matters here.
With that,...
No more dreams about dung
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J.I. Packer once asked, ‘What normal person spends his time nostalgically
dreaming of dung?’ One who doesn’t understand Philippians 3.7–10: But
whatever ga...
9 years ago
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Lottery for accountants!
Evidently, the IRS promises to reward those who report tax fraud with a hefty portion of the tax obligation recovered. I dare suggest that it's a good time to be an honest accountant, and that if the IRS had started this program a little bit earlier, we might have been spared Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Could be. On the other hand, I can envision a lot of honest competitors of corrupt companies gladly hiring such people.
That said, if the amount of corporate tax evasion truly is in the hundreds of billions of dollars, while the total corporate income tax collections are about the same, we would have to guess that honest corporations are like hen's teeth. Yikes.
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[accountant's salary prior to whistle-blowing] vs. [accountant's salary following whistle-blowing]
...sadly, I fear little reduction of crime in this method...
Could be. On the other hand, I can envision a lot of honest competitors of corrupt companies gladly hiring such people.
That said, if the amount of corporate tax evasion truly is in the hundreds of billions of dollars, while the total corporate income tax collections are about the same, we would have to guess that honest corporations are like hen's teeth. Yikes.
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