Coming from a medium to large business environment, I know that shipping mistakes and shrinkage (theft) are depreciable... Every month the accountants run a report, and examine it looking for profit/lost conditions. Many times there's an exception report to just print everything out of 'normal'. They use this report to find unit of measure, and other mistakes that are then corrected. They take the loss in dollars and put that on the tax report. That amount is amortized over 5 years. What's that mean in English? Uncle Sam gives them the money lost by giving them that discount off their taxes. So Uncle Sam pays for it. Uncle Sam gives BILLION$ to people that don't deserve it. He can afford it....
