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Myth Of Ownership / Myth Of Government, Jeffrey Schoenblum Jan 2003

Myth Of Ownership / Myth Of Government, Jeffrey Schoenblum

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Indisputably, the lives of all individuals, now and throughout history, have not been commensurate in every respect. No individual has the most of everything at all times - net worth, love, happiness, security, companionship, fame, food, land, grandchildren, or whatever else he or she values.1 Nevertheless, a utopian strain in intellectual thought, emanating as the Enlightenment afterglow,2 continues to place its faith in the public construction of an ersatz equality that has never existed naturally.3 The Myth of Ownership, a recent book by two New York University law/philosophy professors, Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, is a striking exemplar of this …


Exploring The Mysteries: Can We Ever Know Anything About Race And Tax?, Beverly I. Moran Jan 1998

Exploring The Mysteries: Can We Ever Know Anything About Race And Tax?, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The politics behind tax legislation are explored in order to demonstrate that, rather than being surprising or unexpected, it is easily predictable that federal tax laws would favor whites over blacks.


Income Tax Rhetoric (Or Why Do We Want Tax Reform?), Beverly I. Moran Jan 1992

Income Tax Rhetoric (Or Why Do We Want Tax Reform?), Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The 1992 presidential election is over but the United States economy still faces hard times. Each man who hoped to lead us promised to revive our sick economy, and each cure promised included a strong dose of tax reform. At no time during the campaign or the transition did anyone seem to ask: Can tax reform actually increase employment, lower the deficit, nwerse our trade imbalance, or provide any other boost out of the recession? Why do Americans accept the notion that economic recovery requires tax reform? We did not always think this way. Why does it seem so natural …


Welcome To The Funhouse: The Incredible Maze Of Modern Divorce Taxation, Beverly I. Moran Jan 1989

Welcome To The Funhouse: The Incredible Maze Of Modern Divorce Taxation, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Using legislative histories the article shows how the incidence of taxation began to fall more heavily on women in the context of divorce as women's social and political status rose during World War II and that this trend continued through several sets of divorce tax reform.