Re: spam

["chizzy" <chizzy@gateway.net>]

lets get over this thread KIDS !
ED SHERRICK
----- Original Message -----
From: <OorQue@aol.com>
To: <Dave.Eaton@clear.net.nz>; <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: spam


> >  mmmmm jeff, in the light of your poke at eric fletcher, i feel
compelled to
> >  point out (and apologies in advance if i've got this wrong), but aren't
> >  you/didn't you used to be in the tax business?  which means that you
make
> >  your living from telling people "how to stiff the irs for thousands of
> >  dollars"?
>
> Our business specialized in helping people *resolve* their tax problems,
not
> just stiffing the IRS.  While there were a few clients who accomplished
this
> with our help, they were generally people who were stuck with tax bills
they
> really didn't owe (believe it or not but it *can* happen for a myriad of
> reasons) and thanks to our expertise, got off the hook, as they should
have.
> The rest of our clients did it by filing for bankruptcy, which had nothing
to
> do with us.
>
> We didn't represent past or present tax protestors nor did we ever help
> people "beat the system" ... as for EF, when I discussed his tax situation
> with him -- he brought it up, by the way, not me -- he positively crowed
> about how he was able to convince the IRS to settle his balance due for
> pennies on the dollar (anybody who knows him, also knows that he *always*
> pays less or gets more than you do) and even intimated that he'd been
> exceedingly clever when filling out the financial statements they require
as
> part of their Offer in Compromise process.  Needless to say, I listened to
> him politely and smiled...
>
> >  that being so, i guess only the good ones get to drive s4's? ;-)
>
> To be honest, Dave, my net worth is such that I *could* buy an S4 -- a
dozen
> of them, in fact, and for cash -- but I am adverse to buying assets that
> depreciate.  That I live fairly modestly is a lifestyle choice not a
> financial one ... and, of course, since I didn't inherit any of it, all
this
> money had to come from somewhere, didn't it?   :^)
>
> >  seriously, can we leave the moral commentary for politicians?
>
> What moral commentary?
>
> JG
>