Subject: Re: Biden/s Sttatement on the Pardon
You can't have it be the rule that large-scale intentional tax fraud can land you in jail, but only if you're famous.

I can't believe I'm saying this to albaby, but you're building a strawman here.

I never said that you don't prosecute the unknown. I'm just saying that prosecuting the famous gets you lots of publicity about the prosecution. You don't get the same publicity from prosecuting the anonymous. Publicity is deterrence. Only us tax geeks read the IRS news releases about tax prosecutions. But everyone hears about tax prosecutions against the famous.

--Peter