Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Halloween Brings Out the Lunacy

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Please, CNN, let this story be a Halloween gag, you know, an October's Fool joke. Please? The revenue folks in Iowa, a state I've a...

Tricky Treating: Teaching Tax Trumps Tasty Tidbit Transfers

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It's Halloween. Somehow, without intending it, I have developed a MauledAgain tradition of focusing on this holiday each year that it ro...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Taxing Our Way Out of Congestion

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Drivers in Philadelphia, like those in other American cities, cope with increasingly slower traffic, growing congestion, longer travel times...
Friday, October 26, 2007

The Power of Chocolate

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Yes, folks, chocolate has so many good qualities. It is medicinal. It tastes good. It has many culinary uses. And now comes news that chocol...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Convicted Tax Evader: It's Not My Fault

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Yes, it's another story of corruption and institutional mismanagement. In Seaport's Carter Asks for Leniency two Philadelphia Inqui...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Relatively Speaking, Is It That Big A Deal?

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With so many of my posts devoted to tax law commentary and opinions about legal education, rarely do I give much attention to genealogy. Tod...
Friday, October 19, 2007

How Many Hours Do and Should Law Students Study?

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Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog post on the ranking by the Princeton Review of law student study time inspired me to do some arithmetic. Not...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Tax Relief Based on Age and Income?

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More than a year ago, in New Pennsylvania Tax "Reform" Doesn't Add Up , I analyzed Pennsylvania's property tax reform legi...
Monday, October 15, 2007

Waiting a Bit Longer to Learn if Snipes is Guilty of Tax Fraud

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I've commented previously on the ever-changing adventures of Wesley Snipes as he responds to tax fraud accusations. I started with The T...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Reason #2939 I Want to Teach Property Law

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A colleague sent me an email the other day, and it added to the list of reasons I want to teach the first-year property course. The email re...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Yet More Reasons to Dislike Grading Curves

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Yes, indeed, I detest grading curves. Supposedly they make life easier for graders, but in the long run they are deceptive. For me, the best...
Monday, October 08, 2007

When Lawyers Fail to File Tax Returns

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It ought not be difficult for people to understand the unpleasant ramifications of failing to file tax returns. It ought to be very easy for...
Friday, October 05, 2007

Selling Government Revenue Streams: A Bad Idea That Won't Go Away

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Early in the year I shared my reactions to Governor Rendell's proposal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a private company in order ...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Funding the Infrastructure: When Free Isn't Free

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Two months ago, a bridge carrying an Interstate Highway over the Mississippi River in Minnesota collapsed, killing more than a dozen people ...
Monday, October 01, 2007

Mileage-Based Road Fees, Again

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Larry Staton, who has been reading MauledAgain for almost as long as it has existed, has passed along another tip that not only is enlighten...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Maule on Legal Education, 2007 Edition

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This is about a month late, but fortunately I remembered it when it popped up when I googled my full name the other night. So it was moved t...