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Brookings Institution Takes On Biggest Charitable Tax Break Used By President Trump

A small point on that might be that you really can’t call a deduction cost-effective if the Joint Committee isn’t even scoring it.  The fundamental problem with the deduction is that it is something of a free lunch and that there will be a natural tendency for a race to the bottom when it comes to appraisal quality.

On the other hand, I love what the land trusts are doing and as long as the IRS is underfunded, the scoundrels will be able to find a weak point in the system somewhere.

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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.