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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by lbotos on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:44PM (#13086094)
While I love this scenario from a "Trump could abuse his power" narrative, have there been any recorded cases of businesses in America getting "Secret" tax breaks? Seems like it'd be pretty hard to pull off with the IRS.

Sure, maybe they "Bundled" that data it in to some ~other~ lobbied tax deal, but I'd imagine someone would whistle blow that pretty quick in this post-snowden world?

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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by abstrakraft on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:48PM (#13086111)
>> Seems like it'd be pretty hard to pull off with the IRS.

Unless the IRS itself is the instrument of abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy

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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by hackuser on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:54AM (#13086387)
> have there been any recorded cases of businesses in America getting "Secret" tax breaks?

The tax law itself isn't secret, but companies certainly lobby for and receive tax breaks and other benefits passed openly by Congress. That's what lobbying is about, of course.

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Re:Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re ... by r00fus on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:23AM (#13086792)
Post-snowden? We all know about it but the power abuse still happens.
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