Comments on: Best Definition of a Tax Audit http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/06/24/best-definition-of-a-tax-audit/ Author James Bovard Mon, 21 May 2012 17:41:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/06/24/best-definition-of-a-tax-audit/#comment-120800 Jim Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:33:17 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1003#comment-120800 Larry - thanks for the explanation. Now I can finally understand my bookie. Larry - thanks for the explanation.

Now I can finally understand my bookie.

]]> By: Lawrence http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/06/24/best-definition-of-a-tax-audit/#comment-120799 Lawrence Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:57:26 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1003#comment-120799 Hi, Jim. It's good stuff. The "vig" or vigorish is the small cut taken by a bookie in a bet, so for the IRS agent, it's his price for doing the bidding of gov-co -- i.e., his salary. Nobody uses these terms anymore unless they're in the business, but Howard Stern used to talk about this stuff all the time. Nobody under the age of 60 would be familiar with it. Much like a decent "sense of outrage" about government wrongdoing and torture (IRS related or not), this vocabulary is slipping down the memory hole along with non-hypocritical forms of Christianity. Hi, Jim. It’s good stuff. The “vig” or vigorish is the small cut taken by a bookie in a bet, so for the IRS agent, it’s his price for doing the bidding of gov-co — i.e., his salary. Nobody uses these terms anymore unless they’re in the business, but Howard Stern used to talk about this stuff all the time. Nobody under the age of 60 would be familiar with it. Much like a decent “sense of outrage” about government wrongdoing and torture (IRS related or not), this vocabulary is slipping down the memory hole along with non-hypocritical forms of Christianity.

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