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To: JimisJim who wrote (15015)	3/28/2013 6:49:05 PM
From: chowder	1 Recommendation Respond to of 34328

Actually, I'm tired of the back and forth as well. The problem is nobody, and I mean nobody has been focused and reporting on what happens when you sell long term positions. Reel Ken is about to do that and said he has a good sized tax liability. Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore. I'm keeping them in my taxable account and I don't even care if there isn't a step up basis after I'm gone. I figure my heirs will just have to be satisfied at getting half of something as opposed to all of nothing. If there's a tax due, they can sell them and pay it. If it's not worth it, they can donate the damn things to the IRS, I don't care. ... Ha! Ha!