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Waiting For The Tax Cut Shoe To Drop

But, no.  I had to go back to my youthful ambition and become a writer of sorts.  So I have been obsessively watching for little tidbits and at 8:00 AM on November 2, 2017, am already on my third cup of coffee, because a draft bill is promised to drop at 9:00 AM.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.