[oceanview]

"hardly the norm" with respect to the dishonest practices, the practices you mention are the "norm" and therefore fine.

when someone is setting up a dummy corporation in haiti, or figures out a way to write off every meal they eat, all their clothes, their domicile, their car, their travel expenses, then they have crossed the line.

[gatex]

"...when someone is setting up a dummy corporation in haiti...."

Last I heard, most U.S. corporations were incorporated in New Jersey ---

Why was that ? It was certainly legal and honest.

[Principled]

I see. So "normal" things are ok - while "hardly the norm" things are actually dishonest? How odd that dishonesty has nothing to do with your definition of dishonesty...only how "normal" something is.

And if someone figures out a way to write off every meal they eat, all their clothes, their domicile, their car, their travel expenses, then they have crossed the line. So it doesn't matter whether the actions are legal? It only matters if they're "out of your norm"?

So I guess all this time you've been using the word "dishonest", you've really meant "out of the norm for oceanview"?

[wizardoz]

...the practices you mention are the "norm" and therefore fine.

REALLY?? If something becomes "the norm" and everybody does it... then it's fine? That's your criterion? What are you, 16?

[wizardoz]

Oh and by the way, what "slave labor" does Nike use? Are you saying they pay what you consider "slave wages" or do you have proof (and Jim Hightower's column isn't quite sufficient) that there are slaves working for Nike?