Story Highlights
* A 31-year-old space buff who won a free trip to space can't go
* Brian Emmett would have had to report the $138,000 trip to the IRS
* The software consultant would then have to pay $25,000 in taxes
* Space tourism remains largely recreation for the ultrarich
Story in full:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/28/free.ride.ap/index.html
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It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal,
but isn't it a fine thing, too, to face calumny, injustice and
loneliness for the truth which makes men free?
- H. L. Mencken
