I was shocked as usual to find the shipping notice for this when I was
getting the West bill together and to find the pamphlet on the shelf.
Needless to say I would have kept it and sent West a note with a "39
USC3009" thank you attached and asked for it to be removed from our
account if I had caught it before it was stamped.
I find it really cheeky of any publisher, including West, to just blythely
decide to issue and charge us for a pamphlet like this. So what if it is a
tax bill? If West did this for every important (read thick) bill Congress
issued, they would be hitting us with these specials all the time. Nobody
uses the USCA as a tax service, nobody using USCA cares about the
legislative history of a tax bill. Nobody would even go to USCA for the
legislative history of a bill. In fact, these pamphlets are such stealth items
that NOBODY who didn't actually see the pamphlet when it came in
would know it existed. Where would you go for Legislative History?
First to the CCH or RIA Tax Services, where you expect a well made
legislative history pamphlet. Or to USCCAN, where we already pay West
for legislative history. But not to USCA.
When I see this stuff, I only see $30.00 for West's coffers.
Oh, by the way. You can cancel the tax volumes of Am Jur. If you have
the RIA Tax Coordinator in your library, the Am Jur tax volumes are a big
waste of money that you can give to West for something else. I just kept
the last hardbound one and put a label on it saying cancelled. Just a hint.
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