forward as whistle blowers. bill, this situation may have been legally clear. i m not so sure about that. but very often when things are just on the edge, might this not encourage people who work for a company to cooperate with the irs, to ensnare a company that doesn t deserve to be ensnared? paying whistle blowers sounded like a good idea when it was invented, but it turned into another looting scheme in which lawyers get rich and everybody else gets a little bit poorer. in that sense, it shares this property with some other legal schemes such as rewarding people who file lawsuits over wheelchair ramps or rewarding lawyers who file lawsuits over volatile stock prices. in the end, the lawyers get rich. everybody else gets a little bit poorer. steve, bill brings out a great point. i m always suspicious of any scheme where lawyers get the most amount of money. yeah, again this is where government gets ahead, the lawyers get ahead and the american people are left holding the bag. a