"Todd Pattist" wrote in message
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Your first line was: "Are those people telling the truth?"
which is questioning their veracity without any basis to do
so.

What basis do I need to ask a question? You're just being silly.

Then you wrote: "If not, they may well find that the taxman
eventually gets around to coming back. I sure hope he
does." Since the tax man has no way to tell whether it's
true *except* by coming back, and your "hope he does" come
back wasn't qualified, you seemed to be wishing the tax man
on them.

My "hope he does" certainly was qualified. All you have to do is look at
the paragraph in which it's found. That paragraph clearly begins with "If
not", which you even quoted. Certainly the tax man's ability to find the
truth one way or the other has NO relevance to my own statements.

Pete