This is almost never the case for cash method taxpayers (most of us tend to be cash method which means we report income when we receive it).

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The best example I can give is of this is a commercial that almost never saw the light of day.

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The truth is that this is pretty much never the case, that such incidents are almost always caused by surface handling errors, and are remediated very quickly.

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So when news programs and sites endlessly repeat the story from Aurora, with interviews with those in the theater, interviews with the families and commentary by anyone who has a point to make, we start to think this is something to fear, rather than a rare event that almost never happens and isn't worth worrying about.

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This 250 billion drop is an improvement that could never be made by repayment and inflation has done it almost invisibly.

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