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derivative7

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    Comment #40109688

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  2. comment
    Comment #39659544

    Most taxpayers don't have cystic fibrosis and hence don't want to pay to have it cured. Not feasible. This hypothetical is kind of lame.

  3. comment
    Comment #39642354

    It's David who has been wronged. It doesn't make any sense for the author to chastise him for having feelings about it. And it is not up to the author to prescribe what feelings ar…

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    Comment #39339605

    If I pay 25% marginal income tax and I make a profit of 200 million dollars, I get to keep 150 million. If instead I decide to buy the Mona Lisa for 200 million dollars, and burn i…

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    Comment #39339537

    Taxing people on income they didn't make but the government imagined they could have made in some situation that didn't happen sounds like a slippery slope to be standing on.

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    Comment #39067572

    Is it so terrible to do a very simple procedure once a year to avoid fraud?

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    Comment #38086125

    Correlation does not imply causation

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    Comment #37131744

    Have you tried watching movies with audiodescription?

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    Comment #37087350

    Television is meant to be fiction, and history books are not.