ACORN: Housing Assistance For Prostitutes

[Asher]

I still can't believe on one else is focusing on her grammar. I mean, really, what does it say about ACORN that they let such uneducated ****wits advise people on anything? I mean, if ACORN was selling crack, OK. If ACORN was really a gang front, fine. But come on, now.

You need to get out more, Floyd. That's what they talk like down there.

I cringe when Texans say "y'all" as well, and I think you sound like an uneducated hick, but that's mostly because it's true.

[MRT144]

Educated folks have better paying jobs.

[Darius871]

I still can't believe on one else is focusing on her grammar.

Nobody cares about it because it's not the least bit surprising in a dump like Baltimore. Actually, not a single aspect of any of this is surprising.

[Darius871]

for some reason unknown to anyone but you.

Not the first time you presume to speak for everyone.

I'm not a lawyer so to me the implication may be that the tax advisor may have some kind of limited power of attorney or something to fill out the forms and therefore subject to the legal ethics as a lawyer would be as well.

I never implied that tax advisors are subject to "legal ethics," but instead said in black and white that non-lawyers certainly can't rely on confidentiality/privilege protections that lawyers can, and are therefore more likely to run afoul of the law, contrary to your post's suggestion that tax advisors do this all the time with impunity. There is no impunity. Some might not get caught, sure, but that doesn't change the fact that it's indisputably illegal, which was my one and only point.

Now that you've made clear that you were talking about selective enforcement rather than illegality, of course confidentiality rules aren't relevant.

[Asher]

Not the first time you presume to speak for everyone.

I speak for my people.

[Kuciwalker]

I can't believe Asher is pretending not to understand why Darius used an obvious and reasonable argument.

[Darius871]

I speak for my people.

Why you adamantly refuse to drag this troll on any longer is unknown to anyone but you.

[Asher]

I can't believe Asher is pretending not to understand why Darius used an obvious and reasonable argument.

Obvious and reasonable, maybe -- irrelevant and distracting, yes.

[Asher]

If I wasn't feeling so lazy I would post 6 or 7 posts about the ethics of engineers and how it relates to this situation. Let's just pretend I did.

[Darius871]

Obvious and reasonable, maybe -- irrelevant and distracting, yes.

Distracting from what? There was never any expectation of serious discussion in this thread.

If I wasn't feeling so lazy I would post 6 or 7 posts about the ethics of engineers and how it relates to this situation. Let's just pretend I did.

Are you seriously too dense to recognize the huge overlap between tax advice and legal advice, which is amply evidenced by some reciprocal parts of curricula, some mirrored provisions in the ABA and AICPA ethical codes, the huge number of lawyers in tax practice, and the countless prosecutions of so-called "tax advisors" for unlicensed practice of law? Engineering's about a galaxy away from both. In fact the analogy's so ridiculous that I'm now 100% certain you're trolling, but I just don't care.

[Kuciwalker]

reddit is attempting to suppress the story

[Asher]

Are you seriously too dense to recognize the huge overlap between tax advice and legal advice, which is amply evidenced by some reciprocal parts of curricula, some mirrored provisions in the ABA and AICPA ethical codes, the huge number of lawyers in tax practice, and the countless prosecutions of so-called "tax advisors" for unlicensed practice of law?

I understand the overlap. That's why it's distracting. Throwing in legal regulations that may or may not apply to the ACORN rep is pointless but introduces confusion. Exhibit A: This thread and the resulting threadjack.

Engineering's about a galaxy away from both. In fact the analogy's so ridiculous that I'm now 100% certain you're trolling, but I just don't care.

Actually it's fairly clear to me you don't understand the role of professional engineers. Professional engineers have to consult on and sign off on projects, for instance. Someone makes changes to a schematic, they need to run it by an engineer who can deem it to be safe and sign off for it.

There's a substantial amount of ethics and legal responsibility involved. It's not as far removed as you may think it is.

[Asher]

reddit is attempting to suppress the story

Are they trying to suppress it or are they burying it because it's a ****ing stupid hatchetjob?

[Kuciwalker]

I can guarantee they aren't downvoting because it's not newsworthy.

[Asher]

How do you know?