Friday, May 30, 2008

Is Tax Ignorance Contagious?

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Last week, in Tax Ignorance , I criticized Senator Salazar of Colorado for not understanding the very basic tax concept of adjusted gross in...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Not to Its Credit

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Surely the Congress cannot truly think that the American nation will give it credit for its recently enacted Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, an...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Honoring Those Who Serve

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On this Memorial Day, perhaps we should honor those who serve by taking steps to serve well. Not everyone observes Memorial Day for what it ...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Keeping Free Markets Free

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In reaction to my If Only It Were Prices Getting Depressed post, Joe Kristan, in Good on Taxes, Not So Good on Economics , takes issue with...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Tax Ignorance

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Tax ignorance weakens the civic bonds that constitute the fabric of our nation's democratic and constitutional principles. In an ideal w...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Flat is Not Simple, At Least Not with Taxes

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Last week, during a conversation among a group of people at the gym about taxes, someone turned to me and said, "OK, expert, wouldn...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Is The Riskiness of Writing A Reason to Avoid It?

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In Why I Don't Write , Geoffrey Rapp explores the decision by some law professors to stay away from writing and to focus on the teaching...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Happy Anniversary to Me

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Twenty-five years ago, I taught my first class at Villanova. It was in the Graduate Tax Program. Because the school needed me to teach a cou...
Monday, May 12, 2008

It's Not the Title of Tax Legislation That Matters

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Along comes news that the House has passed H.R. 3221, the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008. To see the text, o...
Friday, May 09, 2008

What Law Schools Really Should Tell Applicants

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In What Law Schools Should Tell Applicants , David Friedman makes the interesting and in many ways sensible suggestion that law schools shou...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Who Should Test the Students?

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I wonder how many people are going to take offense at my thoughts on what is turning out to be a major legislative battle in Pennsylvania. A...
Monday, May 05, 2008

Tax Rebate Program Gets More Expensive

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Tax rebates have started to flow out of the government and into people's bank accounts. According to this MSNBC report , the process has...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Another Candidate Jumps on the Bad Tax Policy Vote Trolling Bandwagon

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A few weeks ago, in Vote Trolling Creates Bad Tax Policy , I explained why John McCain's proposal to suspend the federal gasoline tax th...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The Quick Way to Becoming a Tax Practitioner?

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A few days ago an email showed up in my inbox, with the subject "tax consultant." I opened it, and found this: Dear Sirs, If you h...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Economics Lessons from a Road Trip

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This past weekend I took a short road trip. Short in terms of duration (38 hours) and in terms of distance (approximately 600 miles, which i...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Should the Tax Law Encourage or Dampen Demand?

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The latest entry in my analysis of current economic woes, If Only It Were Prices Getting Depressed , hasn't dampened Joe Kristan's s...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

If Only It Were Prices Getting Depressed

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Several months ago I started a short flurry of blog exchanges when, in Can a Tax Rebate Band-Aid Stop the Economic Bleeding? , I not only qu...