Patrick Gleason, a Forbes contributor since 2014, is vice president of state affairs at Americans for Tax Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy and policy research organization founded in 1985 at the request of President Ronald Reagan. Gleason, who also serves as senior
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