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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (31010)1/2/2009 5:01:58 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
"From that perspective I guess it seems like a smart investment"

In the old days it used to be called "tax farming" --- angling for special tax preference items (or tariff protection, or no-bid contracts, etc., it's all pretty much the same idea) for your special interest group.

That is one of the reasons I've been (for a very long time) so much in favor of giving our tax codes an 'enema' --- totally tossing the entire corrupted and convoluted mess out the window and starting out with a fresh clean sheet of paper....
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