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Patents on Tax Reduction Strategies a Problem

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the genius dept.

EsonLinji writes "The International Herald Tribune has an article about how some lawyers are realising that patents on tax reduction strategies (a business method) might be a problem. The article states that there are already 50 such patents with more on the way, and at least one lawsuit. Particularly worrying is the idea of needing a license to follow the law. Fortunately, some of the laws get that this is a problem. Tax patents, the lawyers wrote, amount to 'government-issued barbed wire' to keep some taxpayers from getting equal treatment under the tax code."

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  1. Working as designed by senahj · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll take Politics for $1,000

    > government ...
    > to keep some ...
    > from getting equal treatment

    I know! I know!

    "What is the definition of "Compassionate Conservative"

    --
    Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check ...
  2. Re:Fourteenth Amendment / equal protection clause by EonBlueTooL · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sorry did you think that the governments power flows from "the people" or that the highest level of law is "the constitution?"

    Now-a-days law is created/disregarded in the republican branch of the government. Call me when we get a real judicial one.

  3. TOTALLY FALSE!!!! SLASHDOT LIES AGAIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, "Some may say that this quote is only hearsay". How many weasel words was in that sentence?
    It's funny how Bush Derangement Syndrome now extends to attributing made up quotes to him, and it gets modded up.

    It's pathetic what the leftists have to resort to this because they have nothing to offer themselves. You are pathetic and sad.

  4. If God gave you those rights... by Naruki · · Score: 0, Troll

    then why isn't He enforcing them?

    If he can't, then they aren't rights.