Source: Kathy M. Kristof, Los Angeles Times ( Free Registration )

Dear President-elect Obama: Maybe it's because tax season is looming ominously -- or maybe it was your long list of campaign promises -- but taxes are at the top of my mind when thinking about my financial wishes for 2009. My one overriding hope: that you will show far greater courage than your three most recent predecessors when tinkering with the tax code. What does courage have to do with taxes?

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