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But just because you have the right to do it does not mean it is the right thing to do.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

If you call an IRS agent for advice on your taxes, there is a very good chance you will get wrong advice and end up in tax court.

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.