Vail Daily News for Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado - News: "The law of giving
Rohn K. Robbins
August 15, 2005
The law of giving? You mean there's a law about who or how I can give my 'good stuff' to if I want to? Well, sort of. Law, as you might have guessed now, after almost nine years of these columns where I've been drumming the theme, touches every aspect of our lives. Its one of the reasons I, for one, am so fascinated with it. From the moment of birth to beyond the grave, law organizes and directs our being and our interaction with one another. I do not think it a far stretch, nor hyperbole, to say that in one way or another law (at least in the good ol' USA) touches almost every aspect of human undertakings and behavior.
One essential aspect of 'giving' involves taxes. Taxes, of course, are the product of the Tax Code which is itself a product of legislation. Legislation (that is the enactments of legislatures, both state and federal) are nothing more that statutory encodations of the law. The Tax Code is a law? Yep, a collection of them really. What all those complicated rules and regulations amount to, when distilled to their nefarious essence, are the laws of tithing to the government, the 'we' and 'us' that collectively makes up our nation."
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