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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 2 points 7 points (+9|-2) ago 

This headline makes it sound like 60% of IRS employees were caught cheating on their taxes. But they wouldn't public such a deceptive title on purpose would they? Nah, I'm sure that would never happen.

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[–] Apathy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Well I read it as 60% of those who were caught. But if you'd like, why not re-word it in a better way for the rest of us.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago  (edited ago)

60% of IRS employees who were caught cheating on taxes were allowed to keep their jobs.

As opposed to

60% of IRS employees were caught cheating on taxes, and they were allowed to keep their jobs.

The headline is very obviously already wordy enough that the extra clarification is a glaring omission.

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[–] draegspir 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I read it that way also. How about this:

60% of IRS Employees Who Were Caught Cheating on Taxes Were Allowed to Keep Jobs

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[–] adfasdf 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

To be fair filling out taxes is not a trivial task. People make mistakes. Besides this, some people cheat a little, and some a lot. Some cheating is really misunderstanding the code. Not every IRS person is going to be a tax expert. I'd wager that most of the ones "cheating" that were kept were minor cheats that were possibly also easy mistakes on taxes.

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[–] BohMoon ago 

How in the fuck do you get 9 points for pointing out the obvious? Is there a fan club you need to join. I get 1 point for an in depth analysis. Done with this site.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss ago 

Most people who will voat on posts do so once and then don't check back. By the time you commented there were few people still looking through the comments. But your post tells me you probably don't have the constitution for Voat.

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[–] prairie ago  (edited ago)

Didn't sound like that to me. If there'd been a comma before allowed, then I would have read it that way.

60% of (employees) allowed to keep jobs.

Clearly 60% refers to who kept their jobs.

60% of (employees caught cheating) allowed to keep jobs.

60% of those caught cheating.

60% of employees caught cheating, [and] allowed to keep jobs.

What a comma would have done