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Church Attendance Held Against Under Armour Exec In Tax Domicile Case

Church Attendance Held Against Under Armour Exec In Tax Domicile Case

They are holding it against him that when he happened to be in Maryland, he went to church – the same church he had gone to while he was living in Baltimore full time.  Thankfully it does not indicate Mr. McDermoond’s religion, but let’s just hypothesize that he is Catholic.  Back in parochial school, they told us we had to go to Mass every Sunday, no matter where in the world we were.  It takes a lot to change your domicile, but changing your religion is not a requirement, so Mr. McDermond’s church attendance should not have been held against him.

I hypothesized Catholic, because I would think that in Maryland, that thought might have crossed somebody’s mind.  Maryland was the only colony founded for Catholics originally.  The only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence was from Maryland.  The catechism we had in parochial school was the Baltimore Catechism.  All that and these judges don’t get that somebody might go to church, wherever he happened to be.

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Bristol Palin At Heart Of IRS Scandal – Who Knew?

So what we have is a reflexive anit-conservative appointed to head the IRS Exempt Group during the Bush administration by an IRS Commissioner appointed by Bush.  Is it possible that the big money Republicans figured that they had the IRS exempt group outgunned, but that a reflexive anti-conservative in that position would be tough on the more conservative part of the party? The other thing that the report mentions is that during the whole period of the scandal no audits of exempts were initiated over the political spending issue.  So the established dark money organizations were let off scot-free.  All the grief went to the Tea Party insurgents who were least able to cope with it.

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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.