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To: Ilaine who wrote (60887)	8/16/2004 5:58:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) of 793800

He sees it as fighting the good fight. You can look at that both ways. You can approve and disapprove at the same time. We Americans are geared toward working the angles. People go to school to learn how to work the angles. They pay big bucks for that. People in your line of work and mine are considered incompetent if they don't find and use all the angles. Using all the tax loopholes offered is considered smart in most subcultures. So what's wrong with using the ESA or this new science-quality law to delay projects? What's wrong with using the three purple-heart loophole to get out of Nam? I'm still not completely comfortable with playing the tax angles so I'm even less comfortable with the rest of it. I think people should play by the rules. But when the rules have loopholes, isn't using the loophole part of playing by the rules? At what point does working the angles stop being smart and ethical and start being abusive or unethical. I don't claim to know. There was a discussion somewhere, maybe on this thread, not so long ago about whether it was right or wrong to play the angles in a basketball game...

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