Taking the “con” out of Con Edison

Joel Sucher
5 min readJun 22, 2021

We don’t pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes

Famously said by Leona Helmsley; disgraced wife of real estate scion Harry/talented businesswoman — cum con artist — in her own right.

Tax dodging is, well, as American as obesity and the fat cat purveyors of said endeavors can be found among the ranks of billionaires; from too-much-yang energy, Elon Musk, to the ‘aw shucks I’m just an ordinary guy’, Warren Buffet.

Then, you have Big Business… and the bigger the business, it seems, the less forked over in the way of…

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Joel Sucher

Joel Sucher has been producing documentaries for some fifty years and writing about subjects like surveillance, cinema, anarchism, foreclosure (among others).