I am not sure how I will use this heatmap thingy, but it is pretty neat.
Thanks to Paul for the heads-up — oh, and Paul, enjoy your 3rd year!
Monthly Archive for August, 2006
Every now and again I get the following: “Oh, you’re a tax attorney? What do you think of [insert name of random Congress man/woman]‘s flat tax / consumption tax proposal?”
My stock answer…”I think that it’s great!” And I give this answer without having even read any of these plans cover to cover.
The latest such question came from Scott in an email yesterday and here is my reply…slightly edited for wider publication.
“Scott:
[irrelevant chit-chat omitted]
I think that the [unnamed Senator's] press release is [hogwash]. It got him his headlines and I suspect that those headlines were all that he really wanted. Continue reading ‘Flat Tax Rant’
Let me see you signing statement this one away….
Today I was reading “Tax Notes” (yes, kids…I still pretend to be a tax lawyer).
Generally, I read the cover than then jump to the “quote of the week” to find out what is notable in the world of tax … ho hum, ho hum.
For the week of August 7, 2006, this was the quote:
I run a clean agency. I find that assertion offensive.
– IRS Commissioner Mark Everson
That stopped me in my tracks. What could he possibly be accused of?
I continued reading and learned that this retort was in response to questioning “about allegations that the agency’s layoffs of estate tax auditors are a backdoor method of repealing the estate tax.”
[click]
Now, I know I am being cynical here…but why is the SF Bay Guardian the only news organization that is still reporting on this story?
Not even Bill Gates is in favor of repealing the estate tax.
So here is my start back into the saddle….
New pictures (a lot of them) are now up on Flickr.
Enjoy.
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