People v. State

In this instance, I find it prudent to follow the advice given to Thumper by his father: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”

Instead, I’ll highlight and highly recommend this recent (but pre-Stack) post by David Gross at The Picket Line (who incidentally practices and advocates a response to the IRS different than Stack’s), in which he quotes these words by Henry David Thoreau:

It galls me to listen to the remarks of craven-hearted neighbors who speak disparagingly of [John] Brown (more…)

Highly recommended, from The Distributist Review: Capitalism as an Unnatural System

Schwarzenegger, in an effort to get California voters to approve a package of ballot initiatives that would have increased taxes and otherwise diverted cash flow to the government, has been warning his subjects of a “doomsday” budget that would, among other horrors, necessitate the release of non-violent prisoners. The voters by a wide margin didn’t give a rat’s ass and rejected the initiatives, and thus doomsday is apparently upon them.

Color me unsophisticated, but I just don’t see where the government, in California or anywhere else, gets off spending money it doesn’t have. But the root of the problem seems to be that neither state constitutions nor the U.S. Constitution (particularly since the 16th Amendment) recognizes any natural limit to the State’s taxing power. If the (more…)

Thanks to a client with whom I bartered legal services for web design, this blog hereby debuts. He is also doing a fine job with my law office website, which is a work in progress.

As a practicing lawyer trying to help clients in their dealings with the State, I hope this blog can engage with and contribute to what has come to be known as the practical blawgosphere.

At the same time, I identify as a philosophical anarchist, a single taxer and a Quaker, and trust that these uncommon perspectives will inform my affirmations here.