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The title. What I find bizarre is the AICPA and various tax defense groups attacking the IRS often, in part by publicly and secretly lobbying Legislative and Executive branches to weaken the IRS. The IRS is why there is work and income for many AICPA members, bookkeepers, CPAs, and many lawyers. In my nearly 20 years of working in tax I never understood this self-sabotage. It seems the AICPA and everyone else should be lobbying hard to make the IRS more effective, not less. Nothing drums up business and revenue in any industry as good as good old fear of something, like if you dont do this repair to your house your house will collapse, or being found breaking tax laws. On the contrary at the current rate most people know the IRS enforcement is nonexistent thanks to Trump, accordingly they are less inclined to pay fees to tax pros to do things right. Its also why work is getting outsourced offshore to less competent workers, because there is less concern IRS will ask questions when some cheap foreign worker prepares tax returns wrong.

I've been seeing flood restoration contractors in my neighborhood. Something I noticed about the houses where these contractors come is the grading around the houses is bad. So just a word of advice, make sure your grading is good. It needs to be gradually going uphill towards your house, not flat around your house, not downhill towards your house. All it takes is some dirt from a landscaping supplier, a landscaping rake, something to pack the dirt down a bit (optional), and grass seed. Or else you may be hiring flood restoration contractors repeatedly every year or couple years when your basement floods during big storms as they seem to be increasing in frequency and intensity. Unfortunately many home owners would rather deal with the expensive restoration costs after the fact, than low cost preventative measures.

I would like to see an updated Oil Impulse driver from Makita. I have Milwaukee M18 SURGE Gen 2, and its great, quiet yet very powerful at its max, doesn't transfer much of kicks to the handle, but the trigger is not as smooth as Makita and often feathering is difficult because it speeds up randomly. On the other hand, Makita transfers more of the kick to the handle at each pulse and costs an absurd ~ $270 for an old tool. My friend's Dewalt hydraulic beats both in my opinion, but I don't feel like buying another battery system driver to add to the mix of battery systems I already have. And now Ridgid released a new one that seems to be kicking Makita's butt in every aspect, compactness, power, smoothness, and price, by far. I wish they would update the Oil Impulse to have less of a kick at the handle so I could get rid of the SURGE and consolidate to having only Makita drills/drivers, at a price that isnt laughable.