Kanagawa Saturday..........

 After my evening bath - a daily ritual with a bathtub and abundant hot water to soak in! - I slept through 5am, read for an hou, back to sleep until 8am - to the overpriced Imperial coffee shop where I had an hour to luxuriate with three English language newspapers and pancakes.

Off to Kanagawa for a day with Joanna and Ziwei.  Kanagawa is quaint - there are single family dwellings and it is a young place - children everywhere we walked - and we did walk!  We had tomato ramen lunches.

And I got to be with Mio, my grandcat!

Has anyone read the 1,000 page plus 'big beautiful tax bill' that the Republican Congress passed?  Is it likely than any US legislator will read the damned thing?

Once upon a time - whenever a major piece of US tax legislation was past, I read - and I read thoroughly!  Let me tell you, without having seen it, that this one is no different than any other large piece of US tax legislation ever introduced and passed - there are 'freebees' in abundance, inserted by lobbyists, that, while specifically applicable for large industry because that writing was inserted for their benefit by the lobbyists working for passage..........and some of those 'beneficial' items can just as easily be applied to small businesses and their tax strategies.  Hey, I read legislation for years and clients paid me well over the years for being able to apply legislation like this for their much smaller businesses benefit......

Is it corrupt?  Likely.  Is it immoral?  Definitely!  Such is life.....

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