Wednesday, June 30, 2004

How Much is Enough? Part Two

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I don’t know how I missed this one. Perhaps because it involves social security benefit computations rather than the social security tax its...
Monday, June 28, 2004

How Much is Enough?

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The headline in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer may be a bit overdone but still carries a big oomph to most of those who saw it: Exec...
Friday, June 25, 2004

Toying With Taxes

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During the past few years the dire financial situation faced by most of the states has frequently been in the headlines. Attention has focus...
Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Taxation and the First Amendment

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United States District Court Judge Stewart Dalzell issued a decision yesterday that raises the question of how the Religious Freedom Restora...
Monday, June 21, 2004

You Do the Math

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It's imitation time. On Friday I described the tax legislation grinding through the sausage stuffer called Congress. Today Philadelphia ...
Friday, June 18, 2004

Back to the Sausage Factory: Tax Bill Going to Conference

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If they still teach Civics or Government Process in the middle and high schools of this country, and perhaps they do in some places despite ...
Thursday, June 17, 2004

Money: The Root of All Evil?

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It is said that money is the root of all evil. I disagree. Money simply is a tool. Money can be used to do good, and it can be used to do ev...
Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Law School Prof Free Agents

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The National Law Journal published an article today on Top Law Professors' Star Power . Essentially it is a description of what some law...
Monday, June 14, 2004

A Break from Writing

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Though I try to blog on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at a minimum, there's not going to be much tonight. I've been writing for m...
Friday, June 11, 2004

The Longer View

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Sometimes the briefest of comments will not only get my attention but also stir up the distaste that I have for unfairness. Today's Phi...
Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Lugging a Tax Return

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An interesting thread on the ABA-TAX listserve gets into a topic that probably interests many more folks than just those who subscribe to th...
Monday, June 07, 2004

Reagan's Tax Legacy

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Unquestionably, Ronald Reagan's impact on the tax world was the enactment of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Replacing the Internal R...
Friday, June 04, 2004

Tax Haggling

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I suppose it's possible to teach (and learn) taxation without paying attention to politics, but it's so deceptive. There is such a c...
Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Ignorance and Stupidity

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As an educator, the difference between ignorance and stupidity matters to me. It matters more, I suppose, to those handling admissions to th...