Kentucky Can Attract Tourists Who Like Bible More Than Bourbon Without Violating First Amendment
I tend to think that incentives like this one are really bad tax policy. A really good thing would be for all states to enter into an agreement to refrain from them, since they threaten a race to the bottom. I don’t think very highly of young earth creationism, although I am less disturbed by it than many. The upside of YEC is that it actually gets some people to think. If you doubt that, check out Tony Reed’s How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.
IRS And The Tea Party – Scandal Enters A New Millennium
The narrative that seems most plausible to me is Lois Lerner as the Agent From Hell. AFH is my term for a certain type of IRS agent that I have thankfully only encountered a couple of times in my career. AFH is not that technically astute, but AFH is dogged. And AFH is certain that your client is up to no good. AFH just hasn’t quite figured out what that no good is. That was Lois Lerner and the Tea Party applications, only she had to do her work through minions. Lois Lerner was passionate about the dark money issue and nobody else seemed to care. So she tortured her line agents to get them to torture bewildered applicants who were already pumped up on conspiracy theories. A perfect storm of bureaucratic bumbling coming across as brilliantly subtle conspiracy.
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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.