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Re: The deciding issue for the 2018 elections is:

A deduction is a legitimate business expense, such as the self-employed writing off their business related car/travel expense.

Over the course of my working life, I had decades, wherein I worked around 100 LOGGED hours, per week. We never run our central air, in summer, except the requisite once a month, to keep seals in place and force lubrication. All winter, our thermostat is set at 58F ... that's not when no one is home, that's 24/7.

We never took vacations, even during the child raising years. That money was set aside for them, for a later date. In the past decade, I can count the number of times that my wife and I have dined out (inclusive of fast food), on my fingers.

If I did these thins, so that my family would not be without ... why should I be expected to pay for others that did not?