Sunday, January 24, 2010

Attacking "Citizens United"

We can begin with a short and sweet change to the IRS Code:
Advertising for any purpose, other than the promotion of the sale of a product or promoting the business entity itself, shall not be deductible for tax purposes. In any proceeding which questions the deduction of any advertising, the taxpayer shall prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that the sole purpose of any such advertising was to promote the sale of a product or to promote the business entity itself.
Comments?

4 comments:

  1. Too understandable. They're gonna have to add a lot of language to make it hard to interpret, and to provide a loophole or two for special circumstances. Congress cant make unambiguous laws, now.

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  2. It won't happen. The republicans will day that we should not be raising taxes during a recession. The democrats will not want the pay cut.

    @Marc don't forget a bill like that will have to take 200 pages minimum and include a rider to enrich a corporation in some way.

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  3. I was actually hoping that we could simply pass a law that says that, for the purposes of the first amendment, the word person shall mean a live human being.

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  4. Yogi, such a law would not survive this court. That is why I think the way to attack it is through the tax law.

    Once one of those conservatives leave the bench, all bets are off. I suspect that Citizens United will be one of the first ones to be overruled.

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