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“On The Basis Of Sex” – What To Read Before You Watch

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I have read the decisions  (There was an appeal, which is where the Ginsburgs came in).  The decision is  Charles E. Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, which was decided by Judge Norman O. Tietjens in 1970 in favor of the IRS. Mr. Moritz had represented himself – not surprisingly given the low stakes.  The decision was appealed to the Tenth Circuit where Mr. Moritz was represented by  Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Martin Ginsburg backed up by Melvin Wulf of the ACLU and  Weil, Gotshal & Manges.  The lead attorney for the United States was James Bozarth played by Jack Reynor.  Sam Waterston, who has played a lawyer on TV more than once, portrays Solicitor General Erwin Griswold.

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Pass-Through Deduction (199A) Will Fuel Wealth Inequality

This really smacks quite a bit of the situation in France that led up to their Revolution that came not long after ours was completed with quite a bit of help from France. In pre-Revolution France the aristocrats, the inheritors. were exempt from taxation.  And what did the Founders of our country have to say about that?  Well, maybe most of them who were busy with the Constitution didn’t have a lot to say about it, but two of them did.  Thomas Jefferson and Lafayette had a hand in writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which includes.

Article XIII – For the maintenance of the public force and for the expenditures of administration, a common contribution is indispensable; it must be equally distributed to all the citizens, according to their ability to pay.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.