Gothamist: Maud Newton, Writer

Marco

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:24:00 -0500

Mess with Maud and you're messing with fire. I'm leaving everything I own to the National Humane Society and either the NYC Public Library or the New Orleans Public Library.

Emma

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:19:59 -0500

Girls, girls - you may have law degrees but it appears Ms Sheenan works at UK Vogue: this is the equivalent of possessing a PhD in the self-serving exploits of the inbred, chinless, mercifully shrinking group known as the British upper class. Family farms? Her colleagues' daddies probably still own half of England. Right, sweetie?

Maud

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:48:42 -0500

Thanks for the compliments, everyone. Regarding the estate tax, I never said that the tax itself benefitted only the very wealthy--an obvious point, to be sure, but since that was suggested by Ms. Sheenan's statement, I thought it was worth clarifying. (Also, it's spelled "doesn't," dear.) I said that the estate tax repeal benefitted only the wealthiest taxpayers, and I generally stand by that statement. If there is a consensus that the unified credit available to taxpayers (now excluding gifts of $1.5 million, a hefty sum) is inadequate to prevent the forced sale of small businesses at a taxpayer's death, and to ensure that adequate wealth is passed along to the next generation, why not raise the credit rather than repealing the estate tax altogether? Moreover, as Old Hag points out, family farms and businesses are not merely the province of the middle class. Finally, GMB is correct that a family business can be passed on to the next generation intact with relatively inexpensive tax planning. I booked my estate planning class at the University of Florida law school. It's not a great law school, generally, but it's venerated in the tax law world. So you and I may have a difference of opinion about the effects of the estate tax repeal, but my opinion is not ignorant. And don't call me "sweetie." Thanks.

GMB

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:38:06 -0500

Hey Moira: Where the fuck did you go to lawschool? Want to save the family farm, get some relatively inexpensive tax planning and it will be done. Don't want to pay a lawyer for a reasonable estate plan, well fuck you. It isn't poor and middle-class America's job to subsidize family farm/bizness owners who are too fucking cheap to get tax advice. Oh, and I got my LL.M. in Tax from NYU.

auburn

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:02:32 -0500

Yes, I'm taken by Maud's eyes too. I also love her short hair.

Old Hag

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:44:05 -0500

Um, MOIRON, family farms, "family businesses" and "family homes" (third of fourth) are used MOST FREQUENTLY AND TO GREATEST PROFIT by the very wealthy. Refer to the various peacock farms in TX owned by NY news anchors. The smaller -- or less profitable -- the home, business or farm, the more difficult it is to get the leaving to offset the tax burden. I'm a fuckin' poet and I know that. Talk to Maud like that again and I'll smack a 401-K booklet upside your head.

MoiraSheenan

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:08:31 -0500

She also knows fuck-all about the estate tax. No, sweetie, it doens't benefit only the very wealthy. It benefits anyone with a family farm, a family business or a family home. Her posting on this subject was plug-ugly ignorant. I see why she's no longer a lawyer.

Ron Mwangaguhunga

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:43:08 -0500

--That would be "Maud" *blushes*

Ron Mwangaguhunga

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:42:15 -0500

Mayde has beautiful writerly eyes.

Serena

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:48:15 -0500

While she seems to be a sweet girl, does her writing appear in any real publications? The type that pay the writer--and not in drink coupons?

Jen

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:13:14 -0500

I got yelled at by a cabbie for not believing the world was going to end. I wish I were polite like Maud.

jake

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:35:53 -0500

i've been in love with maud for some time- i like anyone with a name that hasn't been used since like 1924. it's like being named chastity, or prudence.