The interview was going fairly well. I was feeling confident, even in my borrowed suit, having fielded a number of questions about law school and my internship in the estates department at the Internal Revenue Service. I even passed an impromptu pop quiz about the Tax Code with flying colors, all while keeping my nerves…
It is nearly 10:00 p.m. EST which means that I can finally sit down. I’ve been up for about 16 hours now and like hundreds of thousands of other working moms like me, I get my first real break of the day once my kids are in bed. After getting the kids off to school…
There is a lot of noise that goes on in ICU. The people are oddly silent. But the ambient noises ricochet from bay to bay. The beeping, the alarms, the dripping. I remember those sounds as if it were yesterday. I remember looking across the hospital bed and seeing my brothers, one a tatted up…
I was finishing up with a colleague at the office when I saw my cell phone light up. It wasn’t a number that I recognized so I let it go. The office phone rang a few minutes later and my assistant advised that it was the school. Of course, it was. It was a dental…
Who believes that the economic burden of being middle class in America is difficult. TaxProf blog posted an interesting excerpt from Todd Zywicki’s op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal about double income (at a middle class level) families and their struggle with an increased tax burden. The piece was derived from a review of…
Years ago, in my Tax Policy class, we had a discussion about the value of intangible labor. The discussion was whether it was appropriate to quantify (and therefore, tax) the value of work brought into a home. Sound “out there”? Not really. Salary.com basically does the same thing (minus the taxing part) every year as…