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Re:U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions f... by C1sc0cat on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @06:59AM (#22106137)
This is pretty common world wide you want to encourage investment in companies and not just Guilts (T-bills in US speak)

And also it incentivises things like employee shares which everyone agrees is a good thing, even the SWP Socialist Workers Party Grudgingly accepts this

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Re:U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions f... by afthonos on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:07AM (#22106188)
I wish there was a way to truly be neutral in phrasing. I did not mean to imply this was bad or a lie, but I also didn’t want someone to pop up and say “capitalist lies!” :-)
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