From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #851 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Monday, October 7 2002 Volume 01 : Number 851 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:13:37 -0600 From: "Jacob Proffitt" Subject: RE: [AML] Feeding Your Inner Gnostic I don't know how this relates to AML specifically, beyond the fact that I've heard this a lot in LDS circles and I'd like to dispel a myth here. - ---Original Message From: JLTyner > > I don't generally like taxes, and I feel the income tax > borders on unconstitutional, but we pay all our local, > state, and federal taxes. I used to hear this a lot and finally investigated it. The thing is, income tax can't be unconstitutional when a constitutional amendment was passed specifically authorizing it. That's the 16th amendment if you want to give it a look-see. It's very broad and deliberately so. I understand that there was some debate at the time (1913) about putting a cap on income tax of 10%. That idea was voted down as being entirely unnecessary because congress would have to be crazy to make it so high. Another interesting historical note is that 1914 saw a sudden drastic reduction in reported income--not unsurprisingly if you think about it. People started moving income into companies or trusts--which meant that a lot fewer revenues were generated than originally forecast ;). Jacob Proffitt - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:28:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "R.W. Rasband" Subject: Re: [AML] Mormon Publishing Options (was: Mormon Culture) - --- RichardDutcher@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/1/02 1:59:17 PM Mountain Daylight Time, > scottparkin@earthlink.net writes: > > << BC did well enough to enable Dutcher to make his next film. >> > > Thanks for the good PR, Scott, but the truth of the matter is: because > of > BRIGHAM CITY's financial failure, I'm having a bugger of a time trying > to get > another film financed. I may be forced to direct SINGLES WARD 2 just to > put > food on the table. > This is horrible news. A confession; I didn't like "God's Army" all that much when it first came out. It took the excellence of "Brigham City" to make me go back and see what I had missed. And even the director believes that film was a "financial failure." If "Charly" is the new template for Mormon cinema, that means it's not just a sappy, mediocre movie. It's the Attack of the Fluff Monster. ===== R.W. Rasband Heber City, UT rrasband@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 11:50:10 -0700 From: "Richard R. Hopkins" Subject: Re: [AML] "Religious Educator" Article on Creative Arts Eric R. Samuelsen wrote: >1) "Crooks abound" in LDS circles. I could, if I wanted to, name names, but I won't. Let me just say that unethical, often even downright crooked business practices are the bane of the LDS art world. Just sitting here at my computer, I can think of fifteen, no wait, just thought of another one, sixteen examples of artists who have been ripped off by publishers, producers, arts' related companies big and small. There are also some ethical people in the business, and I won't name names here either, but they do exist. Sorry, Ivan, but this is simply true. Students need to carefully scrutinize any contract they sign with anyone, but if the producer is LDS, be doubly wary. He is, in my experience, more, not less likely to rip you off.< Richard, with tail tucked firmly between legs, says: And Eric should know. Listen to him. Richard Hopkins PS - Sometimes the rip-off is not intentional but the result of incompetence. Still, it feels the same, so be wary and wise. Being LDS is not enough of a reason to do business with someone. - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #851 ******************************