Stiff Sentences In Conservation Easement Criminal Case – Reactions
“A 25-year prison sentence and an order to pay $458 million in restitution should give significant pause to those continuing to promote syndicated transactions under other guises, like fee simple donations. It also should give promoters being sued by investors pause, as the DOJ’s case against Fisher went a long way to exposing the blatant valuation abuses involved in these transactions”
Supreme Court Moore Case – Conservatives Dismiss Founding Era Opinion
Organizations that generally favor lower taxes and a more limited role for the federal government will often also be arguing for an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. In this case the anti-tax argument requires them to make light of a Supreme Court decision that came down when the ink was barely dry on the Constitution.
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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.