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Bernie Sanders And The 90% Income Tax Rate That He Does Not Call For

Republicans seem to alternate between a libertarian paradise or some sort of vision of how things must have been in 1795 when the Founding Fathers were still keeping an eye on things.  Bernie Sanders wants us to have an economy like it was in the sixties and early seventies, when a summer of hard work could pay a year’s tuition and there were plenty of factory jobs that would support a family.  Of course that post-World War II golden age might also prove elusive due to demographic changes and the rest of the world catching up with the United States.

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Technology Officer Loses Appeal On Capital Gains Treatment From Sale To Google

Technology Officer Loses Appeal On Capital Gains Treatment From Sale To Google

The main lesson is that you really should get your documentary ducks in a row, before you sign off an agreement.  But when you are a small piece of a large deal and you are planning to work for the acquirer the amount of leverage you have is limited.  It is really tough to fly in the face of a W-2.  The better strategy might have been to pay the tax upfront and then amend and sue for refund.  That would have eliminated the penalty exposure and also put the initial decision in district court rather than with the Tax Court.

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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.