Who Pays Federal Taxes? The presidential election is just around the corner with the rhetoric as intense as ever. In discussing this with my Texas

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25 Years of Entrepreneurship This week marks our firm’s 25th anniversary. It has been a phenomenal blur. In 1999 my simplistic plan for a “fee-only”