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...What has resulted is a state of affairs in which those who make less that $25,000 are more likely to be audited than high earners, corporations and the self-employed--even though, according to a study by the General Accounting Office, the latter groups are more likely to cheat the system. What's more, university-run tax clinics indicate that the IRS has become increasingly negligent of its duties, often denying the EITC to taxpayers without thoroughly investigating the details of individual cases...
Axelrod found that players are most apt to gravitate to this system when they are likely to encounter the other players again. Without this "shadow of the future," there is every incentive to cheat--to drink but not share blood or, in the case of the stock market, to dump your shares at the first sign of a panic. So the larger and more anonymous the situation, the greater the incentive to be selfish...
...fact that the U.S. is forced to call in political chits to bring down the oil price shows a remarkable turnaround for an oil cartel that was all but written off two years ago, when it flailed helplessly trying to stop members from cheating on output targets as the price languished at $10 a barrel. "OPEC itself may have been surprised at the extent to which their members and associates have complied with production targets over the past year, because there had been so much cheating in the past," says Baumohl. "Non-OPEC producers would start to cheat to generate...
...Ross's department has created a "cheat sheet" of over 100 codes for the that are used for items that are routinely purchased...
Since a great deal of the effort of modernist painting was devoted to expelling illusion as a fraud, a lie and a cheat on the deeper impulses of art, one can easily see why Dali's illusionism was so bitterly attacked as mere trickery--an imposture made even worse by Dali's flagrant preference for Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career...