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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Joel Millman, For New Year, Chinese Shell Out Big For Tribes' Supersize
Clams; Native Americans Dive and Thrive on Asian Trade; 20-Pound Bivalves.
Wall Street Journal, Feb 3, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748704254304576116470583905438.html
Note:
(a) geoduck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goeduck
(section 1 Etymology; The shell of this clam is large, about 15 centimetres
(5.9 in) to over 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length, but the very long
siphons make the clam itself very much longer than this: the "neck" or
siphons alone can be 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length; Native to the northwest
coast of the United States and Canada (primarily Washington and British
Columbia))
(b) bodacious (adj; probably blend of bold and audacious): "SEXY, VOLUPTUOUS
www.m-w.com
(c) The report states, "Divers, some earning up to $5,000 a day, pay neither state nor federal income taxes."
It does not explain.
There is a conception out there that Native Americans need not pay federal income tax, and that 1/8 of blood qualifies one as Native American for that purpose.
It is wrong. See
Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2006-15; IRS, Apr. 10, 2006 (
http://www.irs.gov/irb/2006-15_IRB/ar09.html
(section LAW AND ANALYSIS has the answer)
(d) Too poor, I have never had geoduck. |
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