Taxing Nobel Prize Awards
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Recently, a high Federal Communications Commission official said he could not understand how James Joyce’s “Ulysses” came to be considered a classic. Now the Internal Revenue Service says it plans to tax the awards from civilization’s highest honor, the Nobel Prize.
Our reputation as modern Philistines has never been more secure.
DAVID G. WISKER
San Pedro
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