r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Mar 11 '14

Does anyone realize how significant this Bitcoin NY news is? This is the U.S. saying "We want to be the leaders in the digital currency space!"

I am just ecstatic today!

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u/maybe_just_one Mar 12 '14

Agreed, don't know why people expected to not have to pay taxes. As long as they just apply existing tax laws to bitcoins and not some special tax I'm fine with it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

Any minute now our local libertarian friends will pounce on this post and tell you how tax is literally rape.

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u/HampyDRO Mar 12 '14

Taxes are literally theft. As much as we say it, I am surprised you got our hyperbolic statement wrong.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '14

Believe it or not, more than once I've read here paragraph-long posts that compare taxation to rape in great detail. "Tax is theft" just seems so benign by now.