Let me just observe, after breaking the tax code in the hot sun all day, and then reading the "Regs", that I am so glad that I did not elect to take an LLM in Tax and specialize in the area. I am only blogging now, in fact, because I feel like I've hit a wall and need a break.
I listened yesterday morning to a former treasury official say that the United States deserves a tax code that looks as if it was created on purpose. Hear, hear. Can we get any volunteers to re-write the Code? And the Regs?
Posted by Random Penseur at February 17, 2005 03:54 PMCan we get any volunteers to re-write the Code? And the Regs?
Not on a bet!!!
I know - You do it!
Posted by: Mark at February 17, 2005 04:34 PMI'll do it!
10% on everything over $20,000. No nothing else. And anybody who puts out a budget calling for deficit spending loses a toe.
Posted by: Jim at February 17, 2005 04:52 PMSpeaking from experience, losing minor digits ain't doodly. Better make it something more substantial, like a certain other appendage that comes immediately to mind.
Posted by: Mark at February 17, 2005 05:12 PMCan't do it, Mark. If we made cocksucking impossible in politics the government would grind to a halt.
Posted by: Jim at February 17, 2005 06:15 PMJim - There's always ass-kissing! Boy, is this comment thread dragging through the gutter in a hurry!
Posted by: Mark at February 17, 2005 08:11 PMJimbo, that'd mena poor-ol' George W is going to end up with a couple of stumps.
Posted by: Simon at February 18, 2005 04:34 AMProbably only one. George is fond of his toes and would learn pretty quickly.
Posted by: Jim at February 18, 2005 05:35 AMWhoa! Go away for a couple of minutes (or hours, but really, who's counting?) and find a raging debate over amputation going on in my little tax post. Who says taxes don't cause impassioned feelings?
Posted by: RP at February 18, 2005 08:31 AM