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Ira Stoll on Eduardo Saverin and Echoes of the Reichsfluchtsteuer

Reason Staff | 5.21.2012 4:30 PM


The Reichsfluchsteuer, or Reich flight tax, that the Nazis imposed on Jews trying to flee in the 1930s was 25 percent; Mr. Schumer and his Senate colleague Bob Casey, writes Ira Stoll, want Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin to pay 30 percent. 

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