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dragonwriter on April 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: When the IRS 'likes' your Facebook update

> Yes, the tax preparation industry has made token donations to efforts to preserve the current tax code.

The millions Intuit alone spends annually lobbying to that end are considerably more than anything that could reasonably called a "token".

thenewbtg on April 16, 2014 [–]

A billion dollars has already been raised in the 2014 midterms. A non-presidential year, 6 months before the election, and a billion has already flowed in.

So yes, your millions are a very tiny fraction of the money flowing in.

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