When you say if I decide to "cheat on my taxes or embezzle from my employer".

How long are you doing this for? If you did it once and never did it again.

Yes... you can get away with it.

Remember friend.... I used the word "repeat" for a reason.

It's like Vegas.

Can you win a few hands? Sure...

But the house always wins over time.

Criminals will always get caught as the commit more crime.

The violent crime that ties into illegal guns / drugs. That keeps happening because it ties into the government.

Drug Cartels pay off politicans for reason.