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[...] I equate money for medical expenses with money for taxes.

[...] The taxes bothered you more this time because they fell just after your projects were finished. [...]

[...] I also made arrangements to get our taxes for 1983 done. [...]

[...] Tomorrow morning I check with him regarding tax matters and donations and what sort of bank account I should open for the hospital money.

[...] Instead of charging hardcover losses against taxes as a business expense, say, they charge the author for them; this means they do not have to pay the author any royalties on paperback sales, for at least several years. [...]

[...] You both wanted a year with lower taxes. [...]

[...] I’d worked on taxes for an hour this morning, and Dreams. [...]

[...] The first man is my primary self, who discovers that he must bear the burdens of the second man imposed upon him through cultural beliefs involving taxes, success, the male breadwinner role, and so forth. [...]

[...] That’s complicated at the moment because I’m already taking time off from Dreams each morning now, to work on 1983 tax figures. [...]

[...] Such a stand will automatically clear up all problems involving things like taxes, sex roles, or whatever—on both of your parts. [...]

[...] Then the old ideas of hopelessness settled back in, particularly when Ruburt discovered the taxes. [...]

(The session was late in starting because we went to the tax office after supper this evening. [...]

(As Rachel departed, she mentioned that the old saying that, “one can only be sure of two things—death and taxes,” is no longer true. [...]

[...] I told Jane today that this week I’d pay our taxes a few days ahead of time—another effort to get free....)

(As I mentioned doing at the close of last Saturday night’s deleted session, today I paid our NY State and Federal income taxes a few days ahead of time, hoping the action would contribute to my sense of freedom, and perhaps Jane’s too. [...]

[...] Seth devoted much of the 229th session to what he said were tax and money problems involving Jimmy. [...] In the 229th session Seth gave a March 15 date in connection with Jimmy’s supposed tax troubles.)

(As I told Jane last night, I didn’t realize that I was so tight, so bound up with tensions and stresses, that I was ready to fall ill because of those basic conflicts with self-disapproval, the male-provider role, money, taxes, and all the rest of the daily paraphernalia of living. [...]

[...] It should be noted, as Ruburt said, that the poverty angle was largely eradicated—yet you (to me) preserve it in your worries about taxes, for example—for those feelings of resentment still help you continue to feel impoverished and virtuous. [...]

[...] I also made a lot of money at an early age, in those days before high taxes. [...]

Taxes or whatever might serve as a trigger, but the basic point is that you do not approve of what you are doing. [...]

(No interruptions this morning, Monday, January 9. I worked on taxes for an hour, Dreams the rest of the time. [...]

[...] I went back to working on taxes while Jane talked to him, and at the same time found myself wondering whether his unexpected visit might symbolize one of the very facets of Jane’s dilemma about privacy versus the public life—at least as I understand it: Her vulnerability and availability to anyone who chooses to come here. [...]