Originally Posted by
Scubatooth
25yrs only if they prove in a court of law I did it on purpose. Thats alot more time and money then its worth to the government, because right now there looking for "the big catch" and other BS at this point.
People still get tickets for speeding 5 mph over the limit, even though it costs a lot more time and money than it's worth to the government.
And I've also been hassled by Customs officers for 2 hours searching my bags, only to be assessed a $12 duty based on a leather item
I had already declared on my customs form. The $12 duty almost certainly was not enough to pay the Customs Officer's hourly wage, and considering I had already declared the item on which the $12 was charged, the marginal $0 revenue certainly did not pay the Customs Officer's wage.
And all those countless hours confiscating Evian and Colgate bombs from air passengers? The US govt does plenty of things that cost-benefit analysis suggests should not be done.