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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (862494)	6/4/2015 4:30:06 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578643

>> There's nothing "fair" about billionaires buying off congress and thus the IRS. And there is no evidence at all that has happened on any significant scale, as I've explained to you before. There are no major provisions in the tax code that resulted from "billionaires buying off Congress." Just hasn't happened. That's not to say that Congress hasn't at times done dumb crap, like Jim Wright trying to exempt the estate of a buddy in Fort Worth from tax in TRA86. But it was nothing to do with a billionaire, and he was, of course, dead. It was Wright trying to sneak in a favor for his friends' family. But it didn't make it into the law. So, unless you know of something specific, I don't think your claim holds any water at all.