helvering.bsky.social
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Oh brilliant idea! I went there almost 50 years ago and it's great to hear it's still around!
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I would have agreed on the basis of Trump v. US alone.
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Bill Paul is a terrific tax attorney and some of the utmost integrity. If he was ousted, there is something ugly afoot.
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I found your article very interesting. I am unapologetic in my nerdiness!
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That's frustrating on sooo many levels and to soo many people!
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Stunningly delicious! Miss you!
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Looking forward to the feats of strength!
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I once sat across from your father in the Roosevelt Room. He scared the utter living Bejesus out of me in that meeting! 😬. Merry Christmas to you both and thank you so much for your courage.
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Every quote of hers that I've read proves (or confirms) that she is a raging idiot. Why is ANYONE paying attention to her?
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Therefore, even assuming that Trump is a successful businessman (a highly dubious assumption, as we know) he (and President Musk) know less than zero about how government operates. First four years should have taught us this; second four years is our punishment for failing to learn that lesson.
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Second, business is NOTHING like governing. It requires compromise with opponents, negotiation with supporters and, often, support of the public. Running a business (successfully or otherwise) teaches opposite lessons.
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The worst part for me of teaching a law school seminar was grading exams. I was alternatively bored out of my mind and appalled at the quality (or lack thereof) of analysis.
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God ... perhaps, for the first time in my life, I agree with Trump about something. I need a drink fast!
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Your colleague's column today had it essentially right: the "noise" has completely swamped the "information," especially for voters unwilling or incapable of sifting through it.
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It is now!
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But then there are the successes (far fewer these days). I helped write the 1986 Tax Reform Act. Still ragingly proud 38 years later.
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In reality, the biggest problem is the millions of raging idiots listening to the guy with the biggest megaphone.
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We had that happen a few years ago with our Lexus. Took them a month to diagnose. Fine to shoot the car companies, just not the owners!
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How about this tip: watch the use of the term "geriatric." You're using it as a pejorative. There are a lot of us "geriatrics" who don't consider ourselves as such and have views otherwise sympathetic to yours.
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Prepare for the Anschluss!
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Finally, a campaign to simultaneously raise funds and get the word out to potential victims of legal harassment.
We all sort of talk a big game. This would be a way to put our money where our big words are!
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Perhaps if there were a call to action from notables in the profession (Conway, Luttig, etc.) to volunteer? Then, establish a clearinghouse to collect and organize the names of the willing, and allocate the legal resources when requested.
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If retired attorneys, soon-to-be retired attorneys, and other anti-authoritarians could establish a network willing to step up for those in need, this could go a long way toward blunting the effect of these specious actions.
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ABC had enough resources to resist if it chose. It's the little guys and gals who will be unable to afford legal help.
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It will be almost impossible to do so given the entrenched interests protecting the status quo. Our opportunity(ies) were missed early on, and unless there is a consumer revolution we are stuck with an accidental system developed to avoid wage and price controls during WWII.
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Just like Trump promised to release his tax returns? Asking for a friend!
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Gotta love the perceived anonymity of social media. What a moron!
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Sometimes hope swamps reality!
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Salmon for me!
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OMG - do you think anyone will remember Julie London?Maybe on Emergency? I'm old! 😫
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As a lawyer, it's appreciated!
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He doesn't need any concessions. He needs to be able to claim they made concessions and, therefore, he was successful in forcing them to do so.
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You mean "had been?"
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Complete and utter. And I live there!
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I’m a couple years away from retirement and have been wondering how I’d occupy my time. Bingo! Conway, are you starting a list?
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Very cool. Ours simply dive bomb!
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That Senator wouldn't know Article II (or any other Article) if it reached up and bit him in his due process clause.
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Sex has always powered the economy. She's just the downstream version!
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None of us "likes" the IRS but the United States "needs" the IRS to efficiently collect the taxes that are owed. The IRS already has one hand tied behind it's back; Trump wants handcuffs, leg irons, a blindfold and a ball gag, and Long will give him what he wants! Fucking disaster!
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This new guy (Billy Long?) fits neither model: not a tax expert and not an experienced business leader. Just an anti-tax clown who will run the IRS further into the ground.
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The only exception since then was Chuck Rettig, Trump's first commissioner, who was a highly-regarded tax lawyer from Los Angeles. Chuck was an experienced and serious guy who did a great job.
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Around the same time, Presidents began to appoint Commissioners experienced in operating big organizations who could manage modernization (Charles Rossotti was the first). Prior to that time commissioners had been tax experts.
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when the IRS was "restructured" legislatively in 1998, the commissioner was given a fixed 5-year term in order to avoid injecting partisan politics into the process (very similar to the 10-year term given the FBI director for all those of you rightly wringing their hands over Kash Patel).
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To inject a bit of seriousness to this thread (because this appointment is a fucking disaster):
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Is that all?🥰
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Simply delightful!!!!!