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Originally posted by sgtclub
It seems like we are all trying to make rational sense out of the irrational. I can gleam very few underlying principles in our current tax systems, except that it is a negotiated way to feed the beast.
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Read The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (written by a lawyer). The "beast" is necessary because it creates work for us. What would all the lawyers, accts and consultants do if the beast didn't create busy work for them to sell? Perhaps something productive? Perhaps cure something? Why do that when you can dick around with arcane regs and contort procedure like me. What do I do? I'll tell you what I do. I play procedural games for disgusting business people who don't want to pay bills or want to gain strategic advantage in a deal. I steal from pigs for pigs. Great gig, huh? I feel better losing than I do winning most of the time. A pointless existence if ever one existed.
The only thing lower than me is the people who act as rule custodians in this mess - the useless bodies who remind me about procedure and their little rules, my rote knowledge of which makes my time chargeable at a pretty fat rate.
Manipulating idiotic rules and satisfying clerical minds and reg-custodians. Oh yeh, the beast is great. How many cures for AIDs have been lost because good minds decided to take the fast cash that comes from jockeying with the beast? Maybe Bush is right...
