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  1. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    To be honest, I don't want the capital gains tax increased either. My issue is with the loophole only.
  2. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    Do you eat dollar bills and coins? That's akin to saying my paycheck isn't income either until I cash it. I could collect a stack of checks over the course of a year and leave them in my desk drawer, but at the end of the year the govt is going to want me to fill out a tax return on those...
  3. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    I am not satisfied with having people who earn less, or more, than me paying less of a percentage in income tax. I would be all for a flat tax (pick a rate, 15, 20, 25 percent) so we can all say we are equally shouldering the load. For some reason, I find it strange that you are OK with people...
  4. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    Enough said.
  5. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    I am not sure why you are asking me these questions and/or how it relates to Musk. It simply seems to me that Elon should pay income tax rates on the stock he is given for his labor, and capital gains taxes (or the deductions for any losses) on the money that stock is eventually sold for at...
  6. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    So, asking for a friend here...but let's say one is a member of a partnership or LLC. Can that partnership or LLC pay its partners or shareholders in stock of some XYZ company? That way, they too can employ the rules of the very wealthy and just hold that stock for a year to avoid excessive...
  7. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    Elon's billions is not in an IRA or 401k, they have contribution limits. This is compensation for his work. So, you are ok with him paying less of a percentage than you on your earnings. Takes all kinds to make the world go around, I guess. BTW, a Roth IRA is paid for with post-tax money and...
  8. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    I think we are looking at this very differently. I am saying Elon is getting paid $59 billion, it just comes in the form of stocks. If Elon were to get paid in Japanese yen, he would have to claim that $59 B in the year it was handed to him, not in some other year. Are you and I allowed to...
  9. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    No, I am saying he doesn't take a real salary, instead he gets paid in stock. $59 billion in compensation for his services to Tesla, if it were a salary, that would put him at the top of the tax scales and he would pay just under 37% for a tax bill of near 21.8 billion bucks. By using this...
  10. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    Right, but he gets that compensation at a Capital Gains tax rate of 20%, as opposed to the upper income tax rate of 37%. And that right there is BS.
  11. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    I am as a golden rule as well, but when someone like Elon Musk gets $56 billion in Tesla shares instead of a salary, that kind of grinds my gears. Unless I am mistaken, he doesn't owe anything on that compensation since it comes as a stock. Instead, if he holds it for a year he can then dump...
  12. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    Unless you were home schooled, you are now paying society back for your time in the public school system. Not to mention, how many relatively low-income kids grow up to be great members of society because of their ability to get a free education? The answer to that is quite a lot, not all...
  13. Allen

    Kevin Costner's Horizon movie

    I believe ol' Costner himself funded Horizon. I wonder how much he's lost on it?
  14. Allen

    Antelope Tag 9-C

    Certainly not a position every landowner takes, but there is certainly a very squeaky wheel in that community who want landowners to control every aspect of hunting. Including the tags allotted. The endgame is kind of the South African model where landowners are given a specified number of...
  15. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    I think the premise here is that those opposed to the current system are of the belief that that they could someday hunker down on their property and avoid helping to pay for the government services available to them in the form of road maintenance, law enforcement, fire dept protection, etc...
  16. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    Right, not even close to being all the way open.
  17. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    No, Garrrison Dam was not "wide open" in 2011. It ended up needing to release around 155,000 cfs in early June. Garrison Dam was built to safely pass right around 899,000 cfs, so it was passing less than 20% of its rated discharge. Recent dam safety studies now put the maximum flood (roughly...
  18. Allen

    Bad News - Ash Borer

    Trying to establish exotic food sources for the next invasive bug? Personally, I am not a fan of Russian olive trees. Thorny SOBs! Now, my old Russian pear? Decent tree, but all the fruit end up on the ground 1.6 days after the first is ripe enough to eat.
  19. Allen

    Water Levels @ Lake Darling?

    Tikka is correct. Lake Darling is roughly at it's "full pool". This means they are only letting out what comes into the lake in order to keep it stable. So, areas downstream of Lake Darling are going to be relatively low compared to what you were seeing earlier in the summer. They way to...
  20. Allen

    Bad News - Ash Borer

    Yep, sage brush will be the new state tree.

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