Wisconsin Hosts ClassCrits V Workshop

The ClassCrits V Workshop: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream kicks off today at Wisconsin. Tax Prof presentations include:

Political Failure in Tax Systems

• Francine Lipman (UNLV), Just a Matter of Fairness: Tax Consequences of the Service’s Revised Community Property Treatment of California Registered Domestic Partners (RDPs)
• Shu-Yi Oei (Tulanel), Collecting in the Shadow of the Bankruptcy Law: The Case of Tax Debts
• Phyllis C. Smith (Florida A&M), Exploding Wealth and Economic Inequality and the Failures of the Taxing System
• Camille Walsh (Washington), Hard Times: Taxation and Mass Protest from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

Empowering Local Communities in Global Markets: Cities, Credit, and Culture

• Sam Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), Mutual Funds, Fairness, and the Income Gap

State Action and the Concentration of Political Economic Power 

• Jordan Barry (San Diego), Political Free Riding