Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site teklds.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!tektronix!tekgds!teklds!bobr From: bobr@teklds.UUCP (Robert Reed) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: No Comment Department Message-ID: <25@teklds.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 20:24:25 EST Article-I.D.: teklds.25 Posted: Tue Dec 13 20:24:25 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Dec-83 01:10:29 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 13 [From Contemporary Atlanta] Another big selling point of munis has been the "privacy factor." Most of them have been coupon-of-bearer bonds, which means that there is no record available to the IRS on who owns them. This had a certain appeal to people whose income may have come from tainted sources (dealing cocaine, freelance writing, etc.). --From The New Yorker, Dec. 12,1983 -- Robert Reed, Tektronix Logic Design Systems, tektronix!teklds!bobr