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The Motley Fool September 16, 2011 Morgan Housel	Trillions and Trillions of Dollars Over the coming weeks, a congressional "supercommittee" will try to find more than $1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade. Part of their job will be -- or should be -- a dramatic overhaul to the tax code.
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