• makuus@pawb.social
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    8 months ago

    …I do love the idea of someone who makes much of their money illegally but also has this very honorable commitment to paying their fair share in taxes.

    There’s, perhaps, a more practical explanation. As I’ve read before (in some other phrasing): If you’re going to commit a crime, commit only one at a time.

    In this case, if you’re going to make your money illegally, for goodness’ sake, don’t evade taxes.

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      8 months ago

      Seriously though, some people have almost pulled off some crazy illegal shit and then got caught because a headlight was out or someone was doing something stupid. If you’re going to commit crime, one at a time.

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Timothy McVeigh was pulled over for driving without a license plate an hour and a half after blowing up the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

        From the Wikipedia article

        Within 90 minutes of the explosion, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma Highway Patrolman Charlie Hanger for driving without a license plate and arrested for illegal weapons possession. Forensic evidence quickly linked McVeigh and Nichols to the attack; Nichols was arrested, and within days, both were charged.

        He likely would always have been caught, but he got picked up quick because of that.

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      8 months ago

      This is absolutely it.

      Its just one less way that they can come at you, it also means its harder for them to confiscate your property as proceeds of crime.

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      8 months ago

      Wasn’t that one woman who lied about cancer and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars fully brought down for tax evasion because they couldn’t really get her on much else? The scamanda woman