Ninth Circuit Rules 85-Year-Old Tax Protester Should Stay In Jail
I have to say he has my sympathy, there. Bipolar disorder has marred my career from time to time. It is a tricky thing to catch because you can feel so good when you are manic. That’s the more dangerous part of the disease when you do risky stuff. Depression is not so dangerous, unless, of course, you get suicidal.
Mobile Workforce Act Good Idea But May Need More Limits
I tried to imagine what it was like for somebody who was more peripatetic than I. It made me a little less of envious of the people with mysterious functions who did not have to worry about client service and billing and collection who wandered the nation inspiring us to apply the leverage model and fill in the white space.
It also made me happy that most of my away-from-home work was in Central Florida, where you have a right to carry and stand your ground and no stinking state income tax. I don’t carry and I am sure that I would run like hell, but one more state income tax return might have pushed CV past the tipping point.
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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.