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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (137366)6/14/2001 12:48:35 AM
From: tcmay  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
"Message #137366 from Duke of URL at Jun 14, 2001 12:25 AM
""suggested the White House counsel's office should obtain a government certificate of divestiture that would allow Rove to defer paying capital gains taxes on the stock sales."

""A certificate of divestiture" is it. Well no problem with the Equal Protection guarantees of the Constitution there, eh, bub??? "

I agree with your general sentiment (being a libertarian for 30 years), but we private citizens don't have laws saying we can't meet with certain people if we own stock in certain companies.

I would be curious, and will probably do some research, to find out just under which provisions of the Constitution public officials are exempted from some taxes in this way. I would have assumed they were not exempt...I don't recall any lines on my 1040 form saying "If exempted from taxes by virtue of being a government lackey, skip this section and go directly to Line 93."

--Tim May
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