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1. Having assets in wife's/ husband's/ children's names as a tax dodge. 2. Insisting on a driver when he/she is perfectly capable of driving him/herself. 3. Demanding an expense account to take the family to meetings overseas that could easily have been a 20-minute Skype instead. 4. Claiming rent allowance for staying in the house owned by your wife (also, see #1). 5. Wobbly jowls. 6. Having never known what it's like to be down to your last $20 with a week until pay day and