December 2022 Bar Bulletin
By Michael Goldenkranz
Funny-not-so-funny old freshman college story came to mind as I listened to rants and raves about the new Inflation Reduction Act and its provisions beefing up IRS enforcers. I fondly remembered one of those special IRS agents, who was truly special, and the dad of a very good life-long friend.
Super conservative, very principled, straight-laced, white-shirted, salt-and-pepper-mustached, this IRS special agent was coming to visit his son, “M” — a college bud — for a weekend. It was November 1970, and M and I shared a college dorm near Boston. During that era our small close group of dorm buds felt closer in...