Taxation (Basic Tax)
LEX 7816
- Grading of Exams Completed. I have completed the grading of the exams and have made whatever adjustments I intend to make for class performance. Blue Books will soon be available outside my office. The essay exam questions are posted below. The grades ranged from a high of 73/100 to a low of 45/100.
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- Slides (PDF, 6 to page, black on white, password protected)
- Extra Assignments
- Study Guides
- Additional Stuff (Not assigned)
- Murphy case (holding that the taxation of money received for nonphysical damages is unconstitutional).
- Government's Petition for Rehearing En Bank (Oct. 5, 2006)
- D.C. Circuit, No. 05-5139, vacates its original opinion on its own initiative, (Dec.22, 2006)
- U.S. Budget (2007), Analytical Perspectives, Tax Expenditures, pp. 285-328.
- Joel Slemrod, The Fortune 400 (article showing recent and dramatic increase in the concentration of income at the very top).
- Paul Krugman, The Tax-Cut Con, New York Times, Sept. 14, 2003. Krugman argues that the Bush tax cuts for the rich have been promoted on false and shifting economic and political premises. He demonstrates that they threaten the major New Deal and Great Society programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, within two decades.
- Bob McIntyre, Review of The Great Tax Wars By Steven R. Weisman. Simon & Shuster (2002). Published in modified form in The Washington Monthly, Jan.-Feb. 2003.
A stirring history of the battle for fair taxes in America, starring Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, with an assist from Alexander Hamilton and William Jennings Bryan, and followup by President Franklin Roosevelt. For a law review article by Prof. Calvin Johnson, U-TX, on the early constitutional history of taxes, follow this link.
- Photo Contest
- Cheese Shop (Monty Python) Excerpt, Full (wav files)Link1 and Link2 to full text.
- Letter to a Young Law Student, One perspective on what is important about law school and a career in the law.
- Jack Welsh, recently retired from GE, got some great perks. Here is a link to a color-coded chart of his perks, prepared by divorce lawyers for his wife. On Sept. 17, 2002, he told the GE Board that he is renouncing most of them.
- Tax Code (Complete, House of Representatives)
- Gross Income (YouTube song).
- Old Exams
(Note: Answers, when available, were prepared for the benefit of those who took the test. If no answer is provided, it is because I did not prepare a written answer to that exam for some reason.)
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