But Troy Onink, a college planning expert who has made the interaction of the tax code and the aid formulas into a science, came up with a clever tactic for a client of his in Seattle.

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Pierre Pierre Blais, code-named "Tin Tin", is one of a large First Aid contingent patrolling the ice.

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To aid job creation, the overly complex tax code should be changed in favor of something simpler and more uniform.

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Aid formulas, alas, are taking on some of the complexities of the federal tax code, and also give rise to the familiar phenomenon of marginal tax rates.

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