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Subject: Re: The Gentrification Two-Step
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lcraver@home.ca wrote:
> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

>>>It's not. There's a huge push now in California for the government to base
>>>everything from your electric bill to your car registration fee to traffic
>>>fines on how much money you make. It won't be long before you're going to 
>>>have to submit your IRS returns to the court just to find out how much 
>>>that parkingticket is going to be.
>>
>>That's not going to go over well when someone like Jeff Bezos pays a
>>$10 parking ticket because all of his money is tied up in stock and
>>loans based on that stock. So little to no income to report to the
>>IRS.
>
>Of course you could always do what they do in Sweden by making the
>financial cost in some cases to be a percentage of one's income on
>their last income tax return. The case I remember was that of a
>Swedish star NHL hockey player who was convicted of a DUI and was not
>jailed but WAS fined something like $1.2 million (based on his hockey
>income)

*Whoosh*

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Let's go Brandon!