cowboying americans

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 08:55:24 MST

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    Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
    >
    > Which, for me proves: "To Ur is human, to forgive, Divine!" Or is it the
    > Reverse? Why do I insist on being such a "Weizaecker" ;-) ?
    >
    > Mitch

    Ah, thats the spirit, Mitch.

    Regarding those cowboying Americans, and my comment
    yesterday was that other nations must have cows and
    therefor cowboys, and that these would need to do
    all the same things for all the same reasons:

    I began to wonder what is the profession that is
    most unique to a given nation, so that one could
    refer to that when a nation is doing something
    its own way. Not lawyers, for altho the legal
    system is different in all countries, it isnt
    *that* different. I can imagine lawyers in England,
    Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, etc, doing nearly
    the same job in nearly the same way as U.S. attorneys.

    Then it hit me: tax accountants. The tax code is
    probably the most unique to any given nation. Do
    other western nations have proles who help you
    calculate your taxes? Do other nations have long
    forms and books explaining in excruciating detail
    which items are deductible, etc?

    Yeeehaw, ride em, CPA.

    spike

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