Even as a technical term, income has like 5 different meanings and contexts in the tax code, only sometimes distinguished by adjectives such as "ordinary", "adj

Even as a technical term, income has like 5 different meanings and contexts in the tax code, only sometimes distinguished by adjectives such as "ordinary", "adjusted gross", "modified adjusted gross", etc So its very easy to use this to your advantage and appeal to emotion, when convenient, or pass tougher tax laws that never affect you, which is even more convenient.