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Nevermind that most of them live in areas that get more than they give. "Get government outta my [taxpayer funded] medicare" and all.

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Our treatment followed about the same arc except I had immunotherapy before I started chemo. When I had my last infusion I felt like I had won the lottery. You should try and come out this way over the Labor Day Weekend next year. I'd dearly love to meet you.

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I understand your logic. The flaw is thinking facts are going to change adamantine minds. If the Chump Cult members formed world views based on reality, they wouldn't have joined.

"You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not first reason himself into." ~ Jonathan Swift

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I would love that so much! I'm taking everything day by day right now.

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Not a bad analogy, on several levels.

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another big problem are these large corporations that pay employees poverty wages who then require government assistance. My quibble is not helping poor people it's billionaire owners profiting while we subsidize their employees.

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I know exactly what you mean. I'll keep you in my thoughts and both of us send you all the love.

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No one if the incoming R House has its way. They want to unhire all of the sorely needed extra agents that Biden is trying to bring in and go back to having 6 guys audit a bunch of people claiming the Earned Income Tax credit like God intended.

It's just so obvious. Do you audit the one guy with 300 pages of returns or the 300 people with 1 page returns?

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The GOP has underfunded the IRS to the point that it could literally be Grover Nordquists dream of being drowned in a bathtub.

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They do both things on purpose. Screw over small businesses with little recourse and savage individuals because that's their mandate as they have been severely discouraged from going after the big cheats because they won't hire people who have the skill set to understand complex returns. It's all very much on purpose.

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On the bright side the R's have to give up the business tax credit on R&D which is fucking great news.

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You seem very confused.

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You know most of the people involved in preparing those returns are now convicted felons, yes?

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Did you create a disqus account just to post this drivel?

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Not in Australia!

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