Irrespective of whether or not the dealer trick is right, your argument is unconvincing.
A non-exhaustive list of things which the law allows for and which many people have the ability to do:
* Call you names
* Give you projects that are doomed to fail
* Place you on a team which will drag you down
* Use you as a scapegoat for the failure of a project
* Use KLOC as a metric of performance
* Show you the finger at a traffic light
And yet we don't approve of these things. Something being lawful is the bare minimum, not the gold standard.
None of those provide value. I think you're confusing a hack that only takes advantage of the government in a context where the government takes advantage of us and that's meant to provide value ultimately to someone else.
A non-exhaustive list of things which the law allows for and which many people have the ability to do:
* Call you names * Give you projects that are doomed to fail * Place you on a team which will drag you down * Use you as a scapegoat for the failure of a project * Use KLOC as a metric of performance * Show you the finger at a traffic light
And yet we don't approve of these things. Something being lawful is the bare minimum, not the gold standard.