In an LLC filing a partnership tax return, earned income passes through to the LLC owners subject to SE tax, unless an owner is not involved in operations (which is beyond the scope of this content).

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What's even weirder about the Childress twins' piece is that their counterfactual actually is not counterfactual at all if you broaden the scope beyond acts of mass murder to murder more generally or all violent crime.

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The first area, planning for the expansion of power generating capacity, is beyond the scope of this piece but the second and third is not.

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