Another successful tax court outing

The PN executive director called me on the way home from Monday's tax court hearings with half a ton of news, all good. She and her helpers have been clanging the bell for people to sign up for the PN's unique training session and then the hearings that follow in Columbia.

Cases were whittled down today from thousands of dollars putatively owed to less than $200.

Henry Patriot, lifelong truth warrior and beloved friend of Greenville regulars, is 93 and fading rapidly. We were deeply concerned that the court was going to force him to make the arduous trip down there. He had a hard enough time when I was down there with the gang four or five years ago. He couldn't walk fast enough to get across busy Assembly Street (On which the Strom Thurmond federal building stands) to make a single traffic light change, so we have to stand guard and halt motorists. His hearing is bad enough, but the judge was inaudible -- the latter demanded that the sacrificial victims fess up clearly but seemed oblivious as to whether he himself could be heard.

This time the executive director was able to help Henry get a stay or continuance on his appearance. She's really his guardian angel as he has no relatives nearby.

She reported that a fellow asked for PN help right there at the courthouse -- said he'd known Dr. Clarkson and me for years, but I didn't recall his name. Other longsuffering "taxpayers" there for the shearing gladly took a PN business card.

You reading this, you are among the privileged few who have been blessed with awareness of the PN's talents and assets. Make full use of them! Join if you're not a member already. Tell your friends where real, effective, help comes from in tax defense.

Tragicomic irony..... I just now turned to Wikipedia (as I do about 50 times a day when home) to verify the Thurmond Building's address. You've heard perhaps of artistic styles like modernist, cubist, mannerist, pointillist and so forth? Well, this pile is a product of something called the "brutalist" architectural school. How fitting considering some of the uses to which it's put! But we can complain too much -- KrisAnne mentioned four judges they've dealt with down there, only one of them really bad. Every court day there for Dr. Clarkson was a good one -- he always said everybody'd won their case, and with his kind of skills and experience, there was only small doubt as to the literality of the statement.

Spread the word! Don't hide your light under a bushel! /\/.\/\/.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
A more familiar creation designed by the Thurmond building's architect:
http://www.breuerchair.com/