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NSA hates competition

Amazing - I did not realize that this article was 21 years old until 3/4 of the way through reading it.

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agree 1,000,000%

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And as you likely know, there is a 200% penalty for self-dealing.

If you extract a billion dollars from a non-profit for self-dealing purposes, you owe the IRS $2 billion.

Won't open PDF without me signing up. :-(

Years ago an acquaintance was running a MICROS POS for his restaurant, and lamented the heavy tax burden the local government levied on him.

I was able to create an external software application (we called it "CookBooks") that would selectively skim off cash transactions (ignoring credit card transactions) from the Access database.

This allowed him to reduce his tax liability and pocket a substantial amount of cash on a nightly basis.

This was in 2002 and I recall that it took no time at all to gain update access to the underlying proprietary Access database powering the MICROS system.

Fascinating. I was a S/370 mainframe operator and CICS systems programmer back in the day.

You folks have no idea how much fun you missed out on.

"There are tons of federal acts trying to make everyone equal but at the end of the day companies know exactly what they want and will say "their personality doesn't fit the culture" or "their experience isn't a match" when in reality the individual is too old. "