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paulhauggis on March 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax ...

Sweden already has a form of this. There is a black box many retailers need to install which submits all of their daily transactions to the government.

readme on March 26, 2013 [–]

Sure, perhaps we should also station TSA outside every retailer and have them search our bags. That sounds like a privacy nightmare.

paulhauggis on March 27, 2013 | [–]

Of course it is. I would never live in Sweden because of things like this. I was just pointing it out.

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