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People love to vote for politicians who promise massive, but vague, tax credits for green energy, for worker education programs, for locating in "opportunity zones," for making capital investments, all kinds of stuff ... and then they love to be outraged when companies actually do those things and eliminate the majority of their tax bill.


Is your concern about the vagueness of the proposed plans or the outrage at tax bills?


My concern is that Americans consistently support and vote for bills and tax laws that ultimately work against most regular people (of which I am a member), because politicians use words like "green energy" and "get Americans back to work", etc. Sometimes politicians even pay $1400 per person so people won't question the rest of the bill. What are you concerned about?




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