I think this is a bunch of paranoid hoo-ha. Also, shorts pay cap gains on any money they make just like anyone else. Where did you get that idea? And a sale to GE or any other entity would result in cap gains as well, assuming there were some. If it were a stock deal, the capital gains would occur when the stock was sold--whenever that took place--and the tax would be due then.
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