tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post7970579013757720440..comments2024-03-29T09:33:11.680-04:00Comments on Start Making Sense: AftermathDaniel Shavirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710628584922961682noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post-79356460114077077532016-11-12T09:50:50.530-05:002016-11-12T09:50:50.530-05:00Longtime reader, as a former tax lawyer who has ke...Longtime reader, as a former tax lawyer who has kept you on his RSS reader years after leaving the field, I still enjoy your extremely thoughtful posts (especially the recent great stuff on Section 385). <br /><br />It sounds like you have a very healthy way of thinking about what happened on election day. I did not vote for either of them and was very unhappy to see the result, but by the next morning I realized that the best we can hope for is that he positively surprises us and am trying to have a positive attitude. At the very least, comprehensive tax reform is more likely than it has been in decades.<br /><br />I am actually more than a little concerned that all of the "sky is falling" type protesting going on is actually doing him a huge favor by making expectations so low that if he is not a repressive autocrat but instead merely a fiscally irresponsible buffoon (I think we may have had one of those in the past) his popularity will skyrocket and the opposition will look unreasonable yet again.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00809861968594632429noreply@blogger.com