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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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.
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Allen

    Kevin Costner's Horizon movie

    I believe ol' Costner himself funded Horizon. I wonder how much he's lost on it?
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. Allen

    Property Tax Credit

    Right, not even close to being all the way open.
  10. 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...
  11. 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.
  12. 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...
  13. Allen

    Bad News - Ash Borer

    Yep, sage brush will be the new state tree.
  14. Allen

    Bad News - Ash Borer

    Uhh, once every two years. From your link: "One trunk injection treatment of emamectin benzoate provides 99% control for two years and must be repeated once every two years to continue protection."
  15. Allen

    Sharp-tails/ MT

    Very true. I am pretty sure nobody hunts the sharpies where I used to bow hunt out in the Badlands. By end of October, even without being shot at those birds would fly at well over 100 yds away. Kind of the same as the sharpies on our land, but those I knew were hunted. Field edges, grass...
  16. Allen

    Bad News - Ash Borer

    There are systemic insecticides that can be purchased. All you have to do is pour it on the ground around the tree and the tree takes it from there. Expensive though. When the birch borers hit Bismarck back in the early 2000s, I planted a birch tree. As it got older and the birch borers...
  17. Allen

    Bad News - Ash Borer

    One thing a lot of the old ranchers used them for was fence posts. Trying to pound a fence staple into some of those old gnarly fence posts was a near impossibility unless there was a crack you could wedge a staple into. I can't imagine there are still a lot of them in use, but back in the 70s...
  18. Allen

    Bad News - Ash Borer

    Uggh, once that SOB hits the Missouri Coteau, we won't have to shoot the beavers. The native trees on our land have to be about 80+ percent green ash.
  19. Allen

    NFL News (Vikings)

    Well, it's not common that the 6th or 7th seed in a conference goes on to win the Super Bowl. As I tell people, if you want to be recognized as the best...go out and demand the best available and beat the crap out of them. I follow the Vikes and would love to see them win it all, but they...
  20. Allen

    Antelope Tag 9-C

    Switch to hunting edible creatures and let us know how that works for you. Geese suck! And yes, I've done just about everything imaginable to them to try and bring them into the realm of reasonable table fare.

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