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Hmmm... why on earth can't you have a stand alone bill to help lawyers???

You'd think the folks at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America -- oops! I mean the American Association for Justice -- were ashamed of themselves or something...

1 posted on 07/29/2009 11:43:30 AM PDT by MrLegalReform
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To: MrLegalReform
"Everyone wants to do it, but the problem is there is not a tax vehicle yet,"

I guess that everyone is a reference to the large pool of bottom feeding sharks.

2 posted on 07/29/2009 11:45:19 AM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: MrLegalReform

Fabulous. They want to raise my taxes through the roof and give them to help the people that make my life miserable. What a country! (double barf)


3 posted on 07/29/2009 11:45:29 AM PDT by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: MrLegalReform
"Everyone wants to do it, but the problem is there is not a tax vehicle yet"

....probably bury it in Health Care "reform" somewhere
4 posted on 07/29/2009 11:46:18 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: MrLegalReform

What is the current rule. That fees and expenses are deducted as actually incurred? And income counted as actually received? If so, seems fair. I don’t know of any business that gets to make tax deductions in a year for expenses and fees it thinks it will have to pay in subsequent years.


5 posted on 07/29/2009 11:57:33 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: MrLegalReform

LOL. Tax breaks for me but not for thee.

Sometimes the lefty interest groups make me laugh.

And this attitude is why many attorneys (defense and plaintiff) don’t or have stopped paying dues to the AAJ, f/k/a American Association of Trial Lawyers...nowadays, the only benefit is the car rental discounts for when you’re traveling and that aint enough for me.


6 posted on 07/29/2009 12:04:09 PM PDT by Def Conservative (Obama is a joke.)
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To: MrLegalReform

They should be.


8 posted on 07/29/2009 12:09:23 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: MrLegalReform

What’s the diference between a lawyer and a catfish?

One is a bottom dwelling slime sucker...

The other is a fish.


9 posted on 07/29/2009 12:12:42 PM PDT by kayak42
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To: MrLegalReform

American Association for Justice (AAJ) used to be the American Trial Lawyers Association, a blatantly tort plaintiff’s attorney group. I refused to join it for the same reason I refuse to join the ABA: way too much politics, and of the kind that makes me wanna spit.

Colonel, USAFR


10 posted on 07/29/2009 12:14:44 PM PDT by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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To: MrLegalReform

Raise taxes on wealth producers, entrepreneurs, businesses, and everything else that moves, but the trial lawyers get a tax cut.

Only in Obama’s America.


13 posted on 07/29/2009 12:31:03 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: MrLegalReform

Give ‘em a tax break and watch the number of junk lawsuits skyrocket.


15 posted on 07/29/2009 12:38:24 PM PDT by HoosierHawk
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Federal legislation that would afford trial lawyers a special tax break faces an uncertain future, says one of the chief lobbyists for the nation's trial lawyers.
How about an amendment -- lawyers who lose their civil cases (or settle out of court) get executed immediately after the verdict.
19 posted on 07/29/2009 6:30:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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