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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-26 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:11:40 -0800
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On 1/27/2025 7:49 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> The Box (blu-ray) 2009 movie written and directed by Richard Kelly,
>> based on Richard Matheson's short story, "Button, Button."  Cameron Diaz
>> and James Marsden play a married couple in 1976 who are given a box with
>> a button by Frank Langella, and told if they push the button on the box
>> someone they don't know will die and they will receive $1,000,000, tax
>> free. . . .
> 
> I know of nothing in the tax code making assasination pay tax free.

They made a point to say "tax free" in both the TV and movie version.

The money was delivered in unmarked hundred dollar bills in a brief 
case...  I guess they could have said paying the tax was optional.

All the same probably best to pay up anyway!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G56VgsLfKY4