Taxing Middle and Lower Income Families to Enrich Attorneys The U.S. Senate passed an amendment as part of Senator John McCain’s National Tobacco Policy and Youth Smoking Reduction Act to pay attorneys as much as $4,000 per hour for their work in bringing lawsuits against tobacco companies. That’s right … you read right! $4,000 an hour! Provisions of the proposed tax legislation allows families to be taxed in order to pay plaintiffs attorney’s as much as $4,000 an hour to … Continue reading →