HOW TO AVOID FAMILY ESTATE QUARRELS

Nothing avoids family estate quarrels like a Living Trust Estate Plan. With no need to file with or process in the court, equal shares to all children, and a provision dis-inheriting anyone who files in court to contest the trust. Further “pour over” wills can be written to assure that assets pass as the Trust directed even, if the trust is defeated so that the probate court process must be used.

Will IRS enforce law against Planned Parenthood?

PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND TAX EXEMPT STATUS The U. S. Tax law of charities provides section 501(c)(3) charity status to nonprofit educational organizations.Recent news reports indicate Planned Parenthood has this charity status, but that it recently endorsed President Obama for President in the next election. IRS Code Section 501(c)(3) expressly prohibits any such charity from campaigning for any candidate for public office. Apparently we will soon see whether the IRS under President Obama will enforce this law as it has done strictly in the past and revoke the exempt status of Planned Parenthood, or whether Obama’s people will cause the IRS to wink at this violation – abusing the IRS powers as President Nixon was properly denounced for doing.

DOES PRISON DECREASE CRIME? In “Mass Incarceration Hasn’t Made Us Safer” [DesNews Apr 22, 2012] Jess Rigelhaupt: a) – claims incarceration does not decrease crime, but his only evidence is that crime in America rose steadily with incarceration, while some European nations saw incarcerations and crime rates rise less. No allowance for possibly laxer laws in Europe, poorer enforcement, or unreliable statistics. Legalized marijuana, heroin, etc. automatically decreases crime and incarceration. He further: a) – cites disproportionate numbers of blacks and Latinos in prison as proof they are being discriminated against. No mention of actual crime rates per race, or any studies of same; b) – claims illegal drug problems in rural areas exceed those in large cities, with no numbers to support that c) – claims because bigger proportionate numbers of whites than blacks sell illegal drugs as proof that more whites use them, proportionately; and without authority for the first “fact”. Much of his article seems prejudice, that is opinion without visible means of support.

DON'T RE-LAUNCH ASTRONAUTS PROGRAM

DON'T RE-LAUNCH ASTRONAUTS PROGRAM Charles Krauthammer and former moon astronauts believe (DesNews 4/22/12) America can’t afford discontinue manned space flights. We can understand hero astronauts over-stating their own importance but pundit Krauthammer gives little reason for his claim that America becomes a third rate nation because the shuttles quit flying. Why do we need to re-discover that the moon has sand and rocks just like the earth. Talk about colonies on the moon and sending someone to Mars simply lacks reason beyond the explanation of the mountain climber – it’s because "they are there". But those climbers didn’t cost the rest of us $billions. How many tens of thousands of babies’ lives in the third world could be saved by that kind of money added for their inoculations and medical health? I’m no Obama fan, but he got this one right. Krauthammer seems to welcome any limb out on which to climb to take shots at Obama.