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The US tax code is about 7000 pages long, and you want to know how much of that actually tells you what you owe? About 2%. The other 98%, though, is incentives. It's the government saying if you invest in the things that we need built, we're going to give you some tax dollars back. Things like housing, energy, infrastructure, technology, they need it all funded. They can't do it on their own. So they wrote 7000 pages of instruction that says, do this and we'll pay you for it. And almost nobody reads this

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