On 2/19/2010 9:14 AM, wrote:

AIUI, he owned a small software company who hired only "contractors"
and paid on 1099s. The IRS ruled (or was about to) that they were
employees so he had to fork over back withholding and employment
taxes. He played the game, badly, and lost and was ****ed because he
got caught.

It would probably help if you had some understanding of the issue.

What he was ****ed at, the way I read his swan song, was not that he
"got caught", but the rules had been changed during the game, and even
then the big corporations didn't have to play by the same changes and
"get away with it".

And they do ... much of Continental's current baggage handling website
was written by an ex partner of mine who was 1099 contract software
labor during this time period ... with an office, a desk, a cell phone,
etc ... all the accouterments of an "employee".

Things may have changed recently, but at one time that was SOP in many
industries.

I'm not excusing his inhuman act, nor his reasons for committing it, but
he is right about who has to play by which rules in the United
Corporations of America, or Congress, today.

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