It's not you, it's my cost-benefit calculations
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Just say no to joint tax filing
enApril 12, 2013
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About this Episode
The joint tax return may seem as inevitable as the income tax itself. But commentator Anne Alstott says the joint return is obsolete, and the nation would be better off without it.
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