This is a perfect definition for an IRS audit – at least on the corporate side.
I am mystified by the quip in the last panel, but the line in the middle panel deserves to live in infamy.
“Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes,
ignorance, and arrogance that pave the
way to political collapse.”
This is a perfect definition for an IRS audit – at least on the corporate side.
I am mystified by the quip in the last panel, but the line in the middle panel deserves to live in infamy.
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.
Larry – thanks for the explanation.
Now I can finally understand my bookie.