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Non-filer syndrome
October 24, 2008
The chief of staff for the Governor of New York has a novel defense for failing to file his tax returns for five years:
Lawyers for top Paterson administration aide Charles O’Byrne claimed Wednesday he failed to pay taxes for five years because he has “non-filer syndrome."“These are very high-functioning people who otherwise can complete all of the ordinary tasks in their lives,” O’Byrne lawyer Richard Kestenbaum insisted.
“But there is something that they can’t do, and many times that causes them not to be able to file their tax returns.”
There is another clinical term that often covers the same set of symptoms: "guilty as charged."
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Nobody's responsible for anything they do.
Free will doesn't exist.
We are all programmed by our genes and our bad childhoods.
Sorry, I was compelled to say that because I suffer from "snide comment syndrome."
Posted by: peter | October 26, 2008 8:40 AM