From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: To the Clinton supporters
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:14:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxtH54.2qC
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In article <1992Nov13.184851.22674@dg-rtp.dg.com> crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun) writes:
>In article <1du12eINNntt@morrow.stanford.edu> BL.JYC@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jon Corelis) writes:
>>In article <BxLqDF.K51@quake.sylmar.ca.us>,
>>brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
>>>I don't really care to compare whether Leona Helmsley being tossed in jail
>>>for being rich and obnoxious is more or less unjust than any other crime.
>>>I determine whether or not I think it's an injustice and I express my
>>>views.  Does it matter whether being beaten by cops is more or less unjust
>>>than tossing an old lady in jail for being rich?

>>   That arrogant cake-eater was tossed in jail for not paying her taxes
>>and a damned good thing too.  Every penny she defrauded the government
>>of had to be made up out of the pockets of the rest of us.  Why should
>>we pay extra to make up for rich people's piggish greed?

>That arrogant cake-eater was tossed in jail for not paying $1,500,000 dollars
>in taxes over the course of ten years.  During those ten years she did pay
>$350,000,000 in taxes.  I'm sorry but I can't get upset over someone who pays
>350 million in taxes instead of 351 million.  She should have received our
>thanks not a jail sentence.  And the whole purpose of the prosecution, to
>get Rudolph Giuliani (NY district attorney) elected mayor of New York, failed.
>A complete waste in all respects.  

So What?  For continuous FRAUD in your taxes (deliberate like Leona), the
IRS can, and should throw your ass in jail.  Leona was just as much a crook
for stealing 1.5 million dollars, as anyone else who does the same.  Just
because she paid a lot of taxes and even had the nerve to try to steal
back a million (because that comment of yours works both ways:  if she
is _paying_ $351 million why should she care if it is 350 or 351? Greed,
enough to steal a tiny amount when she knew the punishment).

And also, Leona got *caught* with 1.5 million, like Al Capone got *caught*
with less than $1000 in fraud due to crafty accountants.

If you feel pity or angst over Leona going to jail, then, buster, you
are *really* out there and *really* gone.  

>
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>William Crosmun
>crosmun@dg-rtp.dg.com
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>"Thanksgiving Day.  In the days of our  founders, they  were  willing to give
> thanks for mighty little, for mighty little was all they expected.  But now,
> neither government nor  nature  can  give  enough but what we think it's too
> little.  Those old boys  in  the fall of the year, if they could gather in a
> few pumpkins, potatoes and some corn for the winter, they were in a thanking
> mood.  If we can't gather in a new  Buick, a  new  radio, a  tuxedo and some 
> government relief, why, we feel that the world is against us."
>
>												Will Rogers
>
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