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 title = "Congress, Big Pharma and Kickbacks, Oh My !!!"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2023-12-30T00:00:00-05:00
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+title = """
+  "I ain't no Senators son, no !"
+  """
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2024-01-08T10:50:26-05:00
+tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+Warning. First-world baby-boomer problem described here:
+
+```text
+So, I'm stitting here on the group-W bench, I'm just sitting here...
+```
+
+OK.  Really.  Not trying to get out of the Viet Nam draft, just having
+another surreal interaction with the US Federal government 50 years later
+along the lines of:
+
+```text
+Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
+Ah, they really help themselves
+But when the tax man comes to the door
+Lord, the house look a rummage sale, oh yeah
+
+John Fogerty/Credence Clearwater Revival
+https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catpower/fortunateson.html
+```
+
+<!--more-->
+
+I retired last month.  As a result of a lot of luck and about 38 years
+hard work, I have more money now than at any other point in my life,
+and thanks to the Obamacare (ACA) rules and the way my finances are
+structured I have strong incentives to arrange things so that I have
+very little "income" this year.   In fact, I'm flirting with having so
+little income that I would qualify for Medicaid and be at or near the
+federal poverty level.
+
+So, yeah, I'm trying to make the house (1040) look like a "rummage
+sale" all for benefit of the taxman.  And
+it's all legal and right there on the the government web sites, just a
+twisted bunch of incentives.
+
+It's just surreal.
+
+```text
+There's one for you, nineteen for me,
+should five percent appear to small,
+be thankful I don't take
+it all, 'case I'm the taxman
+
+George Harrison, the nascient neo-con
+```
+
+\#53 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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 # Post 21 of #100DaysToOffload https://100daystooffload.com/
 
 *** Life                                                               :life:
+**** WIP "I ain't no Senators son, no !"                   :100DaysToOffload:
+  :PROPERTIES:
+  :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 2024-01-08
+  :EXPORT_HUGO_PUBLISHDATE: 2024-01-08:
+  :END:
+
+Warning. First-world baby-boomer problem described here:
+
+#+begin_example
+So, I'm stitting here on the group-W bench, I'm just sitting here...
+#+end_example
+
+OK.  Really.  Not trying to get out of the Viet Nam draft, just having
+another surreal interaction with the US Federal government 50 years later
+along the lines of:
+
+#+begin_example
+Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
+Ah, they really help themselves
+But when the tax man comes to the door
+Lord, the house look a rummage sale, oh yeah
+
+John Fogerty/Credence Clearwater Revival
+https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catpower/fortunateson.html
+#+end_example
+
+#+hugo: more
+
+I retired last month.  As a result of a lot of luck and about 38 years
+hard work, I have more money now than at any other point in my life,
+and thanks to the Obamacare (ACA) rules and the way my finances are
+structured I have strong incentives to arrange things so that I have
+very little "income" this year.   In fact, I'm flirting with having so
+little income that I would qualify for Medicaid and be at or near the
+federal poverty level.
+
+So, yeah, I'm trying to make the house (1040) look like a "rummage
+sale" all for benefit of the taxman.  And
+it's all legal and right there on the the government web sites, just a
+twisted bunch of incentives.
+
+It's just surreal.
+
+#+begin_example
+There's one for you, nineteen for me,
+should five percent appear to small,
+be thankful I don't take
+it all, 'case I'm the taxman
+
+George Harrison, the nascient neo-con
+#+end_example
+
+
+#53 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, https://100daystooffload.com/
+
 **** WIP Congress, Big Pharma and Kickbacks, Oh My !!!
   :PROPERTIES:
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