Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-26 (Sunday)

On 1/27/2025 7:49 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

The Box (blu-ray) 2009 movie written and directed by Richard Kelly,
based on Richard Matheson's short story, "Button, Button."  Cameron Diaz
and James Marsden play a married couple in 1976 who are given a box with
a button by Frank Langella, and told if they push the button on the box
someone they don't know will die and they will receive $1,000,000, tax
free. . . .

 I know of nothing in the tax code making assasination pay tax free.

They made a point to say "tax free" in both the TV and movie version.
The money was delivered in unmarked hundred dollar bills in a brief case...  I guess they could have said paying the tax was optional.
All the same probably best to pay up anyway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G56VgsLfKY4