If the First Spouse is willing, how about a thank-you note for every taxpayer signed by the President of the United States and the often much-more-popular First Spouse? (To save on postage, it could be mailed along with the annual Social Security report people get sometime close to their birthdays, for example.) And how about a dinner at the White House honoring the top 100 taxpayers in the country?

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In fact, one corporate head has sent me a personal thank-you note for the policies that helped them to yield great profit.

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Either way, you send a thank you note and check your inbox compulsively for a week, waiting not-so-patiently for some sort of response.

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