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Is it not trivial to spend $100 or $120 or $140 and pay the rest as tip to reach exactly $199.99?

• schiffern 4y ago
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  • necovek 4y ago
    Sure, I am mostly offering a trivial mechanism to reach exactly $199.99 without trying to guess at the menu items to reach it. Being outside of US without political affiliation, this strikes me as a lot of work to embezzle relatively small amounts of money (that was $50k over 2 years): I would always envision politicians getting in on much larger payouts or more worthwhile free rides.
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    • rsynnott 4y ago
      A surprising amount of political corruption is weirdly petty and unnecessary.
      • necovek 4y ago
        I am personally not worried about that: that is not what's causing $1B projects to turn into $20B projects with all the "friendly" (to politicians) companies getting in on the action.
        • rsynnott 4y ago
          … Oh, no, it totally is. How do you think those companies are getting in on the action? Sure, sometimes it’s suitcases full of cash, but often the bribes are, well, smaller than you’d think.
          • necovek 4y ago
            Oh sure, but my point is that even then, those $1B projects could go to those very same companies at a smaller markup (say $1.05B: $50M is still a lot of money).
• ThrowawayR2 4y ago
  If I had to guess, it's more likely they are expensing the maximum allowed and paying any overage out of pocket. Think of it as splitting the bill, only it's with yourself, and submitting the expense report for only one part of the split.
  • schiffern 4y ago
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    • ThrowawayR2 4y ago
      Same difference; there's a limit they're trying not to exceed to take maximum advantage of an external source of funds.
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