From time to time my House representative holds telephone town hall meetings. During his last one, about two weeks before the tax bill was passed, two callers in particular caught my attention.
The first was a pensioner who was worried that he and his wife's taxes would rise; it was not that simple a question, but my representative assured him that they would be fine.
A little later another caller noted that she would be losing a tax deduction for clearing beetle infested trees from her property. She had several hundred trees that needed to be felled and removed. My representative offered to set up an appointment with his office staff to help sort out her issue presumably by trying to get something that would solve the problem into the tax bill.
I could be wrong, but it seemed as though the constituent with enough property (presumably quite a large ranch) was more likely to be writing him a large check come the next election and therefore was afforded the red carpet treatment.
And that's how money translates into legislation.
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