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Join tax expert Ted Tesser in this comprehensive and illuminating presentation on what he describes as a voluntary U.S. tax system that exists for the informed or the ignorant. This disc intends to in
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Amish culture has been rooted in the soil since its beginnings in 1693. But what happens when members of America's oldest Amish community enter non-farm work in one generation? How will hundreds of co
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