Live From Climate March Opening
So here I am live blogging form somewhere in Lenape territory, although most of you would think of it as the southern part of Central Park. I'm here for the People's...
Computer Game Pioneer Trip Hawkins May Escape Tax Debt
Mr. Hawkins was not doing anything like that. The problem that the government had with his behavior is that he kept spending at a level well above his income even though he owed a lot of money. Since the Ninth Circuit started its opinion out by quoting a remark by F. Scott Fitzgerald to Hemingway “the rich are different than you and me”, I expected something really stupendous about Mr. Hawkins’s lifestyle. Something Gatsbylike.
Follow Me
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.