Tracking Tax Cheats.

Here's one for the you-get-the-government-you-pay-for files, from today's NY Times story on the arrest of a man accused of evading $450 million in taxes: "The government has stepped up investigations but managed to recommend only 1,400 tax prosecutions out of the 130 million tax returns filed annually. For budgetary reasons, the IRS relies almost entirely on data reported to it on computer files, not on traditional detective work, to help identify tax evaders."