[EL] Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to InvestigateConservative Tax-Ex

[Joseph Birkenstock]

And that self-government via representative democracy depends on
protecting the representatives against conflicts of interest and undue
influence?  My guess is that we might still agree, but will disagree on
how to & what should provide the protection.  

 

Day job obligations require me to cut to the chase: I sincerely believe
that conservative refusal to accept the fallacy of the efficient markets
hypothesis as a means of understanding the real world, despite the
increasingly ruinous cost of multiple lessons to the contrary, is the
single greatest threat facing our country.  

 

Best,

Joe

 

P.S.  And with that windy observation, I turn to: lobbying registration
thresholds!!

 

 

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Joseph M. Birkenstock, Esq.
Caplin & Drysdale, Chtd.
One Thomas Circle, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 862-7836
www.capdale.com/jbirkenstock
*also admitted to practice in CA

 

 

 

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[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of
Steve Hoersting
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:24 AM
To: Smith, Brad
Cc: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to
InvestigateConservative Tax-Ex

 

Good article, Jim.

Good insight, Brad. It seems there is a chasm, particularly among laymen
in both camps.

But I have often thought there is one thing the liberty minded and
would-be Progressive ministers absolutely agree upon, and that it both
explains the consistency of and drives the activity in both camps:
Self-government requires unfettered speech.

On May 14, 2013 9:42 AM, "Smith, Brad" <BSmith at law.capital.edu> wrote:

Although there are many other issues, including different readings of
empirical evidence and different views of how democracy and government
ought to work, in many ways the basic dividing line is this: reform
advocates fear private power more than government power; speech
advocates fear government power more than private power. 

 

Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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JBoppjr at aol.com [JBoppjr at aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:58 AM
To: rhasen at law.uci.edu; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate
Conservative Tax-Ex

Click here: Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate Conservative
Tax-Exempt Groups - Garance Franke-Ruta - The Atlanti
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/congress-put-pressu
re-on-the-irs-to-investigate-conservative-tax-exempt-groups/275814/>  

 

I guess we won't hear again from the reform industry that there in no
such thing as government harassment. Jim Bopp


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