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Feminist Statutory Interpretation, Kim Brooks
Feminist Statutory Interpretation, Kim Brooks
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Leading Canadian scholar Ruth Sullivan describes the act of statutory interpretation as a mix of art and archaeology. The collection, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions, affirms her assessment. If the act of statutory interpretation requires us to deploy our interdisciplinary talents, at least somewhat unmoored from the constraints of formal expressions of legal doctrine, why haven’t feminists been more inclined to write about statutory interpretation? Put another way, some scholars acknowledge that judges “are subtly influenced by preconceptions, endemic privilegings and power hierarchies, and prevailing social norms and ‘conventional’ wisdom.” Those influences become the background for how judges read legislation. …
America's (D)Evolving Childcare Tax Laws, Shannon Weeks Mccormack
America's (D)Evolving Childcare Tax Laws, Shannon Weeks Mccormack
Articles
Proponents have touted the ability of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA) — enacted in the twilight of 2017 — to help American working families. But while the TCJA expanded some benefits available to parents with dependent children, these parental tax benefits may be claimed regardless of whether or to what extent childcare costs are incurred to work outside the home. To help working parents with these costs (which are often their largest expense), Congress might have turned to two other mechanisms in the tax law — the “child and dependent care credit” and the “dependent care exclusion.” …
Book Review: International Tax Policy: Between Competition And Cooperation, Yariv Brauner
Book Review: International Tax Policy: Between Competition And Cooperation, Yariv Brauner
UF Law Faculty Publications
The author reviews International Tax Policy: Between Competition and Cooperation. By Tsilly Dagan. Cambridge Tax Law Series, 2018.
Eitc For All: A Universal Basic Income Compromise Proposal, Benjamin Leff
Eitc For All: A Universal Basic Income Compromise Proposal, Benjamin Leff
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Universal Basic Income ("UBI") is a concept that has recently begun to enter the popular political consciousness in the United States. It is defined as "a regular cash income paid to all, on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement." It is invoked for a wide variety of political and social purposes, but is almost always presented as radically different from existing governmental welfare and transfer systems. Once a UBI is disaggregated into discrete policy components, it is possible to imagine to what degree existing programs share the benefits (and detriments) of a UBI to a greater or …
Equitable Health Savings Accounts, Samuel Estreicher, Clinton G. Wallace
Equitable Health Savings Accounts, Samuel Estreicher, Clinton G. Wallace
Faculty Publications
This Article offers the first comprehensive legal-policy critique of existing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), arguing that the current approach is redistributively regressive, thus exacerbating inequality, and also fails to accomplish stated healthcare goals. We propose an alternative—Equitable Health Savings Accounts—which uses cash grants as a tool to address both of these problems. Equitable HSAs are a market-based social program that calibrates size and delivery of a government subsidy to help the least well off and to facilitate participation in healthcare markets. Equitable HSAs can serve as a model for using cash grants to bridge the gap between Republican social policy …