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Re:San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options – All of Them by patrickgzill on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:11AM (#2235656)
American Taxation 101: If you have money or might make some in the future, they want some of it.
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Re:San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options – All of Them by haribilalic on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:25AM (#2235719)
I believe this is the basic principle of taxation, yes.
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Re:San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options – All of Them by patrickgzill on Friday February 18, 2011 @03:31PM (#2237119)
Actually it isn't - my joke-y comment was to get people to think ... Thomas Jefferson and many of the other Founding Fathers wrote extensively on the subject; as did many others who were not American...including Bastiat, Gesell, etc.
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Re:San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options – All of Them by burgerbrain on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:34PM (#2237577)
Don't forget to mention "take it by force".
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