I would tell the gentleman in all sincerity that I am prepared to do that and would do it willingly, that I participated in a number of the tax shelters that the Congresses in the past created that were a total disaster, and I would have been far better off just to pay the taxes and not been allowed to do the things that were allowed by past Congresses.
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