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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:37:49 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Political Philosophy & the Mob (fwd)

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>Some appropriate thoughts for tax time:
>
>The following bit of political philosophy from La Cosa Nostra was taken from
>an FBI wiretap of a conversation between Carmine "The Snake" Persico and
>Woody.  (Unfortunately, I don't have a proper reference for this.)
>
>Woody has swindled $500,000 from May's Department Store in
>Brooklyn.  He wants to know why he is being asked to pay a rather
>large share of the money to Carmine Persico, who played no part
>in the scheme:
>
>PERSICO: When you get a job with the telephone company, or maybe
>even May's Department Store, they take something out of every
>paycheck for taxes, right?
>
>WOODY: Right.
>
>PERSICO: Now why, you may ask, does the government have the right
>to make you pay taxes?  The answer to that question, Woody, is
>that you pay taxes for the right to live and work and make money
>at a legit business.  Well, its the exact same situation--you did
>a crooked job [in the territory of the Profaci Family].  You
>worked hard and earned a lot of money.  Now you have got to pay
>your taxes on it just like in the straight world.  Why?  Because
>we let you do it.  We're the government.
>
>--Scott 

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