12 March 2020 - tax worksheet

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Ratchet Effect

A page-long worksheet that you fill in to get one number for another page-long worksheet that you fill in to get one number for a longer tax form that you file to make an adjustment to one number on your main tax form. Once you have an industry that lives by pretending to understand the tax system, they lobby to prevent tax simplification, and voting with money still trumps voting with votes.

clue:

No exaggeration, these are specific forms.

“Voting with money trumps voting with votes” is from 23 April 2013, and I repeated it on 15 June 2016 after we got Trump.

take oh take this clue away

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