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Editor: I’m writing to commend your recent “jeers” comment about our legislators’ non-accountable expense plan. I really wish someone would do an investigation into this. I am a tax accountant and the IRS code states that the reimbursement for a non-accountable plan must be reported as income on their tax return — I wonder if this is being done for those representatives that have $1.4 million in expenses, using taxpayer’s money? And if not, why are they above the law?
I’m thinking of all the places that money would be better spent: our education system, grants for small businesses, healthcare for those that work and don’t have it or can’t afford their employer’s plan, improving our infrastructure, building up recreational places and programs to attract people outdoors, funding for organizations like the YMCA and other community centers to aid in affordable daycare for working parent. I’m sure there are many more. ....

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