Todd’s Movie Blog

Wesley Snipes was just sentenced to three years for tax evasion.   The government is really cracking down, gone are the days when they just take everything you have, like with Red Foxx, or where they just take all of your income from future projects, like with Willie Nelson.  Now you go to jail, and pay the bill.  I never thought I would be so glad to be working a low paying, dead end job in Ohio.  The only things I have of any value are a ten year old car and the ten year old computer I’m typing this post on.  Hooray for poverty!  Seriously though, the thing that bothers me about all this is that the accountants who got him into this mess in the first place seem to be getting off with the proverbial slap on the wrist. If I came up with an idea on how to rob a bank, told someone how to do it, and then they go and get caught following my detailed instructions, I would be arrested for conspiring to commit a crime.  So why is it an accountant can detail a way for a  client to not pay taxes, yet when the client ends up getting caught and sent to jail, the accountant is only guilty of giving bad advice?  John Grisham needs to write a thriller around this conundrum.