by Aristotle123 » Sat Jun 08, 2024 11:24 am
Honk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 9:37 am
Aristotle123 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 6:21 pm
One would think that having to kick up at all leaves a bad taste in the mouth of a lot of gangsters. Especially those who like to earn mainly by stealing,who are used to taking,not giving
Then you might get situations where some guy you never met gets put as boss. Maybe a guy the crew doesn't think deserves to be boss and who got the job through some kind of nepotism. And now this boss is going to be taking cuts of these guys
And doing what with the money? Spending it all on his own comforts of life?
Maybe if it went for the common good of the crew,such as taking care of families of stand up guys in prison
It’s a tax…..nobody likes paying them, gangster or legit.
Not wanting to pay wasn't as much the point as who they had to pay,and what the money was used for
But you are right that its no different than everybody else often paying taxes to underserving politicians spending it on themselves
That said, guys who owned businesses who paid bosses,and who also paid their taxes to government,were getting taxed twice
Of course,I realize that many of these guys didn't always pay taxes.
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One would think that having to kick up at all leaves a bad taste in the mouth of a lot of gangsters. Especially those who like to earn mainly by stealing,who are used to taking,not giving
Then you might get situations where some guy you never met gets put as boss. Maybe a guy the crew doesn't think deserves to be boss and who got the job through some kind of nepotism. And now this boss is going to be taking cuts of these guys
And doing what with the money? Spending it all on his own comforts of life?
Maybe if it went for the common good of the crew,such as taking care of families of stand up guys in prison
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It’s a tax…..nobody likes paying them, gangster or legit.
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Not wanting to pay wasn't as much the point as who they had to pay,and what the money was used for
But you are right that its no different than everybody else often paying taxes to underserving politicians spending it on themselves
That said, guys who owned businesses who paid bosses,and who also paid their taxes to government,were getting taxed twice
Of course,I realize that many of these guys didn't always pay taxes.