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          Fargo v. Commissioner, 447 F.3d at 710 (it is not an abuse of               
          discretion to disregard claimed medical expenses that are                   
          speculative or not related to the taxpayer).                                
               Third, petitioners argue that Cochran did not adequately               
          take into account the economic hardship they claim they will                
          suffer by having to pay more than $100,000 as to their tax                  
          liability.  We disagree.  Section 301.6343-1(b)(4)(i), Proced. &            
          Admin. Regs., states that economic hardship occurs when a                   
          taxpayer is “unable to pay his or her reasonable basic living               
          expenses.”  Section 301.7122-1(c)(3), Proced. & Admin. Regs.,               
          sets forth factors to consider in evaluating whether collection             
          of a tax liability would cause economic hardship, as well as some           
          illustrative examples.  One of the examples involves a taxpayer             
          who provides fulltime care to a dependent child with a serious              
          longterm illness.  A second example involves a taxpayer who would           
          lack adequate means to pay his basic living expenses were his               
          only asset to be liquidated.  A third example involves a disabled           
          taxpayer with a fixed income and a modest home specially equipped           
          to accommodate his disability, and who is unable to borrow                  
          against his home because of his disability.  See sec.                       
          301.7122-1(c)(3)(iii), Examples (1), (2), and (3), Proced. &                
          Admin. Regs.  None of these examples bears any resemblance to               
          this case but instead “describe more dire circumstances”.  Speltz           
          v. Commissioner, 454 F.3d at 786.                                           






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