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Foundation and our partner, review institute, we welcome you to our sixth annual court review program. We also want to welcome our cspan, whether theyre watching live or in one rebroadcasts. As we usually do, i want to the use of this facility and their especially courteous and professional staff assistance. Before i introduce our moderator, whos back by popular demand, i will give a very brief Supreme Court update. Last term, my colleagues won two for Supreme Court victories clients we directly represent. Aboute especially excited nick versus june in scott township which overruled a precedent,year which prevented Property Rights owners from suing in federal localwhen state and property. S took their the Supreme Court record is now 12 wins out of 14. Soon have five pe ....
Because its the right thing to do but i cant. And i said i wouldve voted against it because it would help me politically but i cant. But everyone knew it was going to be listed. All of the rhetoric would take place, the accusations. But eventually we would vote to raise the debt ceiling as we always did. And it was amazing to me that eventually became such a critical issue that it could have resulted as the country going into default, an issue that the Previous Congress had been debated and people express themselves and they knew what they needed to do at the end and we are in a different kind of environment now. Speaking to the governor earlier about the Business Community and how they are looking for certainty and stability and how that is one of the reasons and they will send an extension with some conditions. The president has never had anything. That would do him ....
Have a majority and they were the shareholders in government so you participate sometimes and theyve become oneparty voters. Our system is almost parliamentary today in terms of voting blue and voting red. They used to vote for the name on the back of the jersey. Ow they vote for the jersey. Its the best way to put it so what happens and they come to washington they behave like a Parliament System so instead of the Minority Party or the Opposition Party and to say no to everything and thats got to be broken, so the good news coming out of the elections on tuesday we have three states now that have runoffs with the top two from the primaries. Two democrats, two republicans, california, louisiana, washington state. They tested 21. So there is some movement out there even in the state democratic districts or are some r ....
Time ago now. More than six decades now. Its going to have two be with the return based system which doesnt make people furious with it. I think thats quite doable. The current code is loaded with provisions that are both complicated and make no policy since like the alternative minimum tax and the way a lot of tax benefits are subject to phaseouts which function as hidden marginal tax rate increases which nobody understands. For a lot of people the income tax has become kind of a black walks where you put numbers into the 1040 or into the software or you give them to your return preparer and it never comes out. This is your Tax Liability but they have no idea where that came from. I always have trouble saying this but i think its a good laugh if i can get it out. Taxation without comprehension is as an amoco to democracy as taxation without representation. We have got a real democratic problem when people are paying taxes and they ....