I doubt Michael Vick is stupid enough not to report his income from the NFL or NFL sales of gear.

This is more about the money Michael Vick may have received from cocaine and heroin dealers that came to visit his place, fight their dogs with his, bet illegally with him, paying him off with illegal drug money, etc.

Michael Vick was extremely stupid to continually year after year make the mistakes that he did, but I doubt he was stupid enough to try and pull a Wesley Snipes by not paying any taxes at all.

But when it comes to reporting illegal cash transactions in the form of payments or receipts, it could be very different and there could be a large number of people that were involved with Michael Vick over those 6 years of illegal gaming and dog fighting that have direct evidence of what he REALLY did happen, as he did so much business with gangsters and drug dealers with his dog fighting business, I suspect the odds are good that one of them may eventually need to flip against him when they get caught for their own crimes in the future.

As to the tattletale issue, that argument is for pansies and wimps. It takes a brave person to stand up and report someone that is breaking the law.

When I first learned of some of the things involved in tax evasion with a company I worked for (see update above), I did not suspect half the bad stuff that was really happening.

Tax evasion and money laundering go hand in hand and they usually are just the tax cover up for much more serious crimes.

I could have taken the attitude that you suggest and said nothing, not turned into a ‘tattletale’ or acted as a whistleblower, but you see I’m a lot tougher than that.

I served in the Army for a bunch of years, and everyone in my family history has served during just about every major war or battle our country has been in. I don’t say that from the perspective that war is glorious or any crap like that. Its not. I say that from the perspective that we do what we have to when there is a need.

People that sit back and let criminals walk all over them are cowards. If you are too much of a coward to be a ‘tattletale’ then odds are you are going to end up a victim of your own cowardice some day.

We have to take stands against things that are wrong in this world. That’s not always easy both from the perspective of what it can do to our personal finances or even our public perception, or maybe even our short term safety (I’ve faced down a lot of death threats.) But if you take no action, you can bet that those criminals are going to get stronger, do things that are even worse and eventually that cowardly karma will come back to bite you.

You might find that funny, hilarious or something else. That’s cool, you are entitled to your opinion and thanks to people that are not cowards, you have the right to express it openly and freely.

More power to you!

But you are not surrounded by cowards and feeble minded imbeciles. This site is a small example of the fact that there are people out there that won’t stand by and let other people walk all over us.