MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

How to Read the Tax Code 📖

5 May 2026 · 1 min

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Mark Kohler argues the tax code is designed to modify behavior, not ensure fairness. Congress uses tax breaks to incentivize housing, jobs, energy, and economic growth because it can't directly manage the economy. When you participate in these incentivized activities, you build wealth while serving government policy goals.

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The big idea most people miss. The tax code is not about being fair. It's about influencing behavior. Congress is trying to get things done, build housing, create jobs, produce energy, grow the economy. When we elect our government officials, senators and representatives at the state or federal level, they're going to try and create laws or tax incentives as one example to get people to do things. How can they help people in their area, their constituency, make more money and build wealth? And here's the part most people, I think, realize the The government's not good at doing all of these things in the economy themselves. So instead they turn to you, to us as Americans, and they say, hey, if you'll go do this, we'll give you a tax break. And when you do this, you can actually make more money because you're investing in what we as a society have said will reward you to do.