How often have you heard someone say, oh, I pay my taxes, you know, I'm a taxpayer.

So that commitment is a way of saying that you are the sort of person who gives back

to the people in their neighborhood, people in their community, and the sort of person

who deserves to be listened to by their government.

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We now have more to come through and think about.

We still don't have that much because the way in which a lot of the sort of mechanics

of it are going to work have been missing from the plan, including from what we've heard

from the White House, including from what we've heard from Stephen Manuchin, but at least

from what we have, we now can make a little bit more detailed of an analysis and try to

get a better understanding of what the impact would be of what Donald Trump is proposing

to do with taxes, including the economic repercussions of what he's trying to do.

So there's six primary actions that we understand and have deduced our part of Donald Trump's

tax proposal.

And we'll go through them one through six.

Number one, there's going to be a proposed reduction of individual tax brackets.

Now, these are federal tax brackets.

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