Crime doesn’t pay – except in Kalifornia Back when I was a kid my older brother got hold of a letter that was going around. The letter was a joke, ostensibly from a regular guy to the federal government, asking to be paid for not raising hogs. That’s been 40 years ago, and the letter, in various forms, is still making the rounds, although now it’s on AlGore’s interwebnets. This letter got its start because the FedGov had a program whereby a farmer who typically raised a crop tha ...