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Old May 1, 2022 | 1:19 pm
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Originally Posted by PepeBorja
Paying taxes is part of life so why not get LPs from it?
Opportunity cost.

Heck, forget opportunity cost. Even cost cost is reason enough not to get LPs from paying taxes!

There's no way I would pay > 1.5% for any fake currency like AA LPs.


Originally Posted by inlanikai
Sounds like the old scheme with buying the dollar coins (Suzie-B's?) for no fee using an AAdvantage linked credit card direct from the US Treasury and redepositing the coins in your checking account to pay the resulting credit card bill.

(emphasis added)
No it doesn't sound like that scheme at all. The bolded part is why.

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