You know it is amazing how the govt worries so much about the poor and middle

[Rex]

class getting a single penny, by mistake or crook, yet apparently has no worries about the wealthy when they get millions/billions after a 10 year crime spree from within their own ranks.

Funny how that one works.

[Enrique]

1. here's the real question

should people be able to by soda with food stamps? :sarcasm:

[dkf]

2. Exactly what are you talking about?

[TBF]

13. He's talking about class warfare. You wouldn't be interested. nt

[mrcheerful]

3. It has been that way since Reagan told nit wits greed was good and the rich

create jobs which they don't. After watching time after time nit wits voting against their best interests the tea bagging R's have no one to blame then themselves for their problems, they created this mess by voting to stop someone not like them from enjoying the same entitlements they themselves demand. The crime spree started over 30 years ago, the last 10 yeas are just showing how criminal the R's and corporate America could get.

[neverforget]

4. That's a great way of putting it.

K&R

[RegieRocker]

5. That way with laws also

blue collar crime white collar crime. Steal $100.00 from convenience store get 20yrs. Steal millions and get a 6 mo stay at club fed.

[TalkingDog]

9. In our state it's 1 penny. Stealing ANY money from your employer is a felony.

North Carolina appellate courts have compounded this confusion by misinterpreting a statute based on an act passed by Parliament in 1528. The North Carolina courts interpreted this statute as creating an offense called "larceny by employee"; an offense that was separate and distinct from common law larceny.<8><9> However, as Perkins notes, the purpose of the statute was not to create a new offense but was merely to confirm that the acts described in the statute met the elements of common law larceny.<10>

Read the Language of the Law:
� 14‑74.� Larceny by servants and other employees.

If any servant or other employee, to whom any money, goods or other chattels, or any of the articles, securities or choses in action mentioned in G.S. 14‑75, by his master shall be delivered safely to be kept to the use of his master, shall withdraw himself from his master and go away with such money, goods or other chattels, or any of the articles, securities or choses in action mentioned as aforesaid, or any part thereof, with intent to steal the same and defraud his master thereof, contrary to the trust and confidence in him reposed by his said master; or if any servant, being in the service of his master, without the assent of his master, shall embezzle such money, goods or other chattels, or any of the articles, securities or choses in action mentioned as aforesaid, or any part thereof, or otherwise convert the same to his own use, with like purpose to steal them, or to defraud his master thereof, the servant so offending shall be guilty of a felony: Provided, that nothing contained in this section shall extend to apprentices or servants within the age of 16 years. If the value of the money, goods, or other chattels, or any of the articles, securities, or choses in action mentioned in G.S. 14‑75, is one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or more, the person is guilty of a Class C felony. If the value of the money, goods, or other chattels, or any of the articles, securities, or choses in action mentioned in G.S. 14‑75, is less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the person is guilty of a Class H felony

[RegieRocker]

12. But they can steal it from your paycheck no problem.

[Donnachaidh]

6. Have they hired more IRS agents to go after the wealthy crooks?

You know, to offset the layoffs of IRS agents who were trained to go after wealthy tax cheats -- laid off by Bush.

ahh -- crickets!

[Rex]

7. No the IRS is to busy still trying to find the 200 billion they 'lost'

some years a go.

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. We are 'the govt'...

...and no one ever got the Purple Heart for a self-inflicted wound, inflicted to avoid service.

That's what most of us are guilty of -- starting with the non-voters.

[Taitertots]

10. The Military can't account for trillions

The only two things that don't get touched in America:Concentrated Wealth and War

[Lyric]

11. Tell me about it. I've had friends who got audited and hounded for getting more back in EITC

than they were supposed to (and theirs was just a mistake in math, not deliberate fraud!) But the wealthy largely go unmolested and unnoticed by the IRS--particularly those with corporate wealth.

It's like giving a 5-year prison sentence to a desperate guy who shoplifts food for his hungry kids, while letting a bank robber go free with a tiny fine and a warning.