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Here is the headline reporting that a proposed Washington state tax designed to tap into the windfall profits of billionaires went down in flames. Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer is now poised to cash in about 1/4 of his Microsoft stock holdings for a 2 billion windfall.

I guess that means it's up to billionaires to "give away" their fortunes, John D. Rockefeller style, one dime at a time. Good luck with that.

Update: 2010-11-11

Trudeau covered the billionaire's dilemma earlier this year.

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