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Regardless of the merit/demerits in this case, this is an aspect of tax law that I've always found distasteful - the special little one-offs. Laws should be ge
by tomohawk 9y ago
Regardless of the merit/demerits in this case, this is an aspect of tax law that I've always found distasteful - the special little one-offs. Laws should be general and apply equally to all.
The US Constitution forbids bills of attainder. These special loop holes for individuals seem very much like bills of attainder.
- dragonwriter 9y agoA bill of attainder is an act of a legislature declaring a particular person guilty of a crime and prescribing criminal punishment; they aren't the same thing as this, which is (in effect of not in name) a private bill, which are well established as Constitutional.