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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 147416" data-attributes="member: 605">Eyexer said,espringers is right, this thread shouldn't be going down this divisive road. But we'll do a little clarification here. People in town pay taxes on their house. A farmer pays taxes on his land not his home. However, provided 51% of his income is from farming. And that is gross wages from any off farm income compared to net farm income. That's pretty hard to overcome. So if a farmer has off farm income he gets a double whammy. Tax on his land and on his house. I was a coal miner and farming for 30 years. I paid it. When I retired from the coal mine, I went to the county and told them. They said the bar has been raised and now there is a three year look back. I waited three years. Then they said the bar has been raised again and now you have to prove that you do not take in more than $40K of off farm income. My pension has a very good medical benefit included and with my wife working I went over the 40k of off farm income by four hundred dollars. Looks like I'm stuck paying the double whammy until I'm 65. When I get there maybe they'll raise the bar again. The fellow always leading the charge on this is Senator Dwight Cook. He thinks all farmers should pay on their homes and their land. What a great idea, take the money out of their pockets and put in it the county treasury's. No one is suggesting "yet" that farmers should have to pay on all of their out buildings. In Montana ranchers pay on out buildings. If they build it out of straw they pay less tax. If they build it out of wood they pay more and if they build it out of brick they pay through the nose. Is it a tax or a fine? Anyway, sorry about the side track.</blockquote>

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