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agwa ◴[] No.44469695[source]
As a small software business owner, I have to agree with Michele Hansen (who spent 2 years advocating on behalf of small software businesses for this very change): "we’re finally going to get Section 174 relief, and I couldn’t be angrier" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mjwhansen_it-looks-like-were-...
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yieldcrv ◴[] No.44469716[source]
I disagree, every rider was independently lobbied for and the outcome would be the same if passed separately by Congress or as a rider in a larger bill like it was.

There is no reason to have cognitive dissonance over it.

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1. AnthonyMouse ◴[] No.44471133[source]
If you have a huge omnibus bill that has a good thing that the representative's constituents want, and then a mountain of burning trash attached to it, and the representative votes for the bill, they can defend the vote as getting the thing their constituents wanted.

If you make them each a different bill and then the constituents want to know why they voted in favor of the hot garbage by itself, how can they answer?