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Saturday, April 02, 2005
Carrot, stick, drum
The Guardian reports on an innovative way of stopping tax evasion:
Well, ok, but what if they like the music? Have you heard the kind of shit they play in discos these days? They'll just think it's some new remix and start thrusting their pelvis. One fine party the taxman can have with them then.
Fed up with persistent tax evasion in the southern Indian city of Rajahmundry, the taxman came up with an unusual solution.
A team of traditional drummers is dispatched to make an unholy din outside the homes and shops of offenders until they pay up, in a sense literally beating the cash out of them. Those who don't pay must continue facing the music.
Well, ok, but what if they like the music? Have you heard the kind of shit they play in discos these days? They'll just think it's some new remix and start thrusting their pelvis. One fine party the taxman can have with them then.
