Comments on: The Ball. The Hoopla. The Tax. http://www.taxgirl.com/the-ball-the-hoopla-the-tax/ Paying taxes is painful... but reading about them shouldn't be. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:16:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: 756 Goes On the Chopping Block. http://www.taxgirl.com/the-ball-the-hoopla-the-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-3174 756 Goes On the Chopping Block. Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:36:14 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/the-ball-the-hoopla-the-tax/#comment-3174 [...] on the souvenir” if he kept it. Maybe he’s reading the tax blogs - most practitioners, including me, believe the ball to be taxable at [...] [...] on the souvenir” if he kept it. Maybe he’s reading the tax blogs – most practitioners, including me, believe the ball to be taxable at [...]

]]> By: Robert D Flach http://www.taxgirl.com/the-ball-the-hoopla-the-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-3173 Robert D Flach Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:58:51 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/the-ball-the-hoopla-the-tax/#comment-3173 Nothing to do with taxes – but your post made me think of the classic Broadway musical comedy DAMN YANKEES. The show is set in the 50’s, as that is when it was written. Revivals of the musical also must be set in the 50’s – it can never be updated to current times. Why? The main idea of an athlete selling his soul to the devil is commonplace today. Plus the show features a song “I Thought About the Game” in which the ball players recant how they avoided “inappropriate behavior” because they were more interested in the game than their own pleasures. Such a song in today’s world of professional sports is more fantastic, and unbelievable, than the devil and a witch as main characters. TWTP Nothing to do with taxes – but your post made me think of the classic Broadway musical comedy DAMN YANKEES. The show is set in the 50’s, as that is when it was written.

Revivals of the musical also must be set in the 50’s – it can never be updated to current times. Why? The main idea of an athlete selling his soul to the devil is commonplace today. Plus the show features a song “I Thought About the Game” in which the ball players recant how they avoided “inappropriate behavior” because they were more interested in the game than their own pleasures. Such a song in today’s world of professional sports is more fantastic, and unbelievable, than the devil and a witch as main characters.

TWTP

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