naive expression such as “playing the game” is a salve for the conscience of fraudulent actors. Following this smiling injunction, pharmaceutical companies ensure that prostate cancers are cured at great expense, even though patients are not expected to face a serious problem until the age of 130, and physicians provide useless treatments knowing that by contract they are compensated for each of their medical acts. With the same nudge-nudge, wink-wink attitude, tax agents who are well equipped to zero in on parties guilty of major economic fraud prefer to hound waitresses who fail to declare
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