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The IRS has a Whistleblower Office that pays out rewards to those who blow the whistle on others who aren't paying taxes. Back in 2017 during the last crypto b
by RandomBacon 6y ago
The IRS has a Whistleblower Office that pays out rewards to those who blow the whistle on others who aren't paying taxes.
Back in 2017 during the last crypto bubble, people were posting on reddit about cashing out and not paying taxes. Some of the accounts practiced zero opsec while claiming (and posting screenshots) of $500k+ sums.
I imagine there will be more similar opportunities during the next crypto bubble if anyone is interested.
- nodesocket 6y agoI am a believer in karma and avoid mccarthyism style snitching on people. People who lie, cheat, and steal will get what’s coming to them. Mind your own world of influence.
- ves 6y agoWhy not be the agent of karma? Someone’s gotta do it, most likely.
- brutal_chaos_ 6y ago-most-likely- Apologies, how does one strike through?
- mkl 6y agoM̶a̶g̶i̶c̶ With a tool that inserts Unicode strike overlay characters (like U+0336, "combining long stroke overlay"). E.g. http://adamvarga.com/strike/ http://adamvarga.com/strike/ or https://yaytext.com/strike/ https://yaytext.com/strike/.
- RandomBacon 6y agoThe people who aren't paying their taxes are lying, cheating, and stealing. If they get reported on, then they got their karma. (I believe in a version of karma: crappy people are more likely to have crappy things happen to them because they put themselves in that position.)
- minerjoe 6y agoSome people are actually conscientious objectors to having their money being used to topple democratically elected governements, running drugs into inner cities, and to further fuel the long violent decline of evil empires, for example.
- nojito 6y agoThe same people are ok with using government provided GPS and drive on government provided roads.
- bastawhiz 6y agoIf you're a citizen, they're lying, cheating, and stealing from you. Turning a blind eye because it's a kind of crime you don't feel much of the impact from is shameful.
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- irjustin 6y ago> Mind your own world of influence. I have trouble with this. For potential whistleblowers (which this thread is about), this is their world of influence. They are part of an organization that is actively defrauding/harming individuals and they have the power to do something.
- elgenie 6y agoIf society is set up to serve up what's coming to people that lie, cheat, and steal, then and only then do they get what's coming to them. McCarthyism style snitching would be making vague and unspecific accusations towards ones personal enemies; making evidenced accusations of wrongdoing out of a sense of responsibility is pretty much the opposite.
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- quietbritishjim 6y agoI'm completely non-religious but your comment reminds me of a fun Christian parable I heard when I was young. A person is warned of a flood, and then when it comes various people try to rescue them from an increasingly desparate situation, culminating in a rescue helicopter while they're sitting on the roof of their entirely submerged house, but they tell each one "no thanks, God will rescue me". They eventually drown, and when they get to meet God they ask him "why didn't you rescue me?" to which he replies "I sent people to warn you, rescue you and even sent a friggin' helicopter - what more did you expect?" If you believe in karma then you should surely expect people to play a part in it. Or are we supposed to hope that rocks are more likely to fall, by chance, onto the heads of evil people?
- Communitivity 6y agoWhistleblowers are needed. “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill FYI, this is the actual quote that is more often attributed to Edmund Burke in the altered form of “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."