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From: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP
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Subject: Computer Programmers Can be Taxed
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Date: Thu, 6-Oct-83 15:34:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  6 15:34:42 1983
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This kind of stuff has been going on for artists for years
in the United States.  I remember a ceremonial burning that
the famous Tucson artist, Ted deGrazia, had in which he 
destroyed a large number of nice things.  He had good press
coverage.  There was a similar case of the "Artist in Residence"
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the mid-1960's.  
The IRS got after him too.  
  
Artists can donate painting to art galleries and other "charitable
organizations", thereby getting a big tax writeoff.  I wonder if
perhaps we should establish a museum of programs, so that programmers
could contribute their efforts, and thereby gain a similar writeoff?
-- 
  Lee Dickey, University of Waterloo.  (ljdickey@watmath.UUCP)
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