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It appears that insult is the only real form of debate you know. There is a huge difference between the Russian government and the way it does elections and how things function in the U.S. Nothing that either party has proposed comes anywhere close to that. If you took off your partisan...

I completely agree with that.

While Putin does emphasize the Russian Orthodox Church, Russia is in no way a real democracy. Not even close. Putin and his party have installed rules that ensure he will never face a candidate that might actually pose a challenge. In addition to that, Russia trumps up made up charges against...

At least as things stand now, I do agree with you on that. That's why I said that those who say either candidate will destroy this country are engaging in fear mongering. They'd need, at the very least, a Congress to enact their anti democratic policies and regardless of whether Trump or Harris...

LOL. There you go again attacking me. You have heard the saying that insulting your opponent is the clearest sign that you've run out of substantive arguments, right? The idea behind the founding of this country was NOT for the public to be all like minded blindly following any leader like...

The problem with that report is the numbers are drawn by counting the number of days the president has been away from the White House. But presidents often continue to do work while away from DC. Much of Biden's time away from the White House is spent at his two homes in Delaware, which simply...

A lot of people say the same thing about Trump - he wants to destroy the republic and install himself as dictator. In both cases I think those claims are nothing more than fear mongering politics. Regardless of who wins in November I doubt very much that either one of them will destroy the...

The union does have a big impact on this deal. But US Steel is not exclusively union. US Steel's management finally woke up the fact that continuing to use 100 year old blast furnace technology was loser in today's competitive international market for steel. As a result US Steel in 2020 built...

So it appears that Trump, Biden, and Harris are all on the same page on rejecting the takeover of US Steel if the anonymous sources quoted in the article are accurate. I can see why they are framing it as a national security issue, but there's a risk that U.S. Steel may eventually go under...

True, illiteracy is not iself a disabilty. But if the person has a mental disability that prevents them from being able to learn to read and write, that underlying disability may be protected by the ADA. For example, I know a musician whose dyslexia makes it nearly impossible to write the music...

It's a form of discrimination. But it's important to remember that most discrimination is legal. For example, an employer preferring an applicant with a college degree over one who doesn't is discrimination in favor of those with college degrees. That is legal discrimination though. Of course...

That's the most valuable piece of that article. Each of the candidates has their own pollsters to help them determine where to best put their efforts. It's the accuracy of those polls, which are not made public, are the polls that will shape how this election comes out. Two months to go is a...

The problem with your advice is (1) turning himself in may potentially be used as evidence against her and (2) if the police never catch up to him she may avoid arrest altogether. Note that upon turning himself in he likely will be arrested. The advantage of turning yourself in is that you get...

Possession of any amount of cocaine or ecstasy is illegal under federal and Missouri law. Whether the prosecutor will charge you with possession of those drugs is impossible to predict. The amount you had is pretty small, so there are a variety of things the prosecutor might to do. Not knowing...

As you indicated that you are in CA, the CA State Bar (which is overseen by the California Supreme Court) you might consider in the future using the Bar's mandatory fee arbitration program to pursue a fee complaint. If you request fee arbitration the attorney is required to participate and the...

There is nothing in the facts the OP provided that indicates that the fees charged were excessive. If the attorney was representing the OP in litigation it wouldn't be all that unusual for fees to reach $20k or more.

That depends on what exactly the buyer is purchasing. If the buyer is buying the business entity as a whole (e.g. buying the share of a corporation) the debts will follow the business because the business entity is the debtor and a change in ownership of the entity doesn't change what the entity...

I've long wished for that too. When I first started as a tax lawyer I started buying the nice West hard bound version of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). It started with two (rather thick) volumes. As Congress kept adding to the Code it was no longer feasible to keep making those two volumes...

Well put. The proposals I've seen would effectively make the mark to market (MTM) system that is now elective mandatory. The MTM system only applies to investment assets that are fairly liquid like stocks, bonds, etc. Personal residences, rental properties, personal property like cars, etc...

Right now the tax law is that a taxpayer may elect to be taxed on investments using mark to market, a method in which tax is computed each year on the gain or loss in those investments. So it's not impossible to do as a practical matter as it's already being done. You're right that making it...