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archenemy

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  1. I don't want to see that pic ever again.
  2. You are not telling me anything I don't know. You gotta think that if I am bright enough to earn the money to buy properties and figure out my taxes, I am bright enough to have passed a basic econ course or two. All I am saying is that the correlation between rent amounts and taxes are not as clean and simple as folks want them to be.
  3. There are many other factors involved. How much new building went on in that area? Were home loans affordable and so lots of renters are now owners? Did the area deteriorate during the last X years? Did it improve? The answer to your last question is no, I would not lower my rent due to taxes. If that were true, I'd lower my rent every year for 28 years(depreciation table). My rent amount does not depend on my tax amount.
  4. Unless you know all the expenses and amounts that your landlord pays, you don't really know that. Some years, that is true. Some years, it isn't. Not complaining here, just trying to put a dose of reality into this idea that all us slumlords are cashing in every year.
  5. chock full of fun
  6. That is income tax, not property tax. I get to pay them both. Butr we aren't talking about income tax in this particular instance, are we?
  7. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    That is incredibly sad.
  8. Um, I own rental properties and am pretty familiar with who gets the bills. Like the housing market, the rental market is cyclical. I have to charge a competative rate. Unlike the housing market, my taxes don't seem to go up and down. I have to pay them no matter what I am collecting in rent.
  9. hee hee I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue
  10. Anti-abortion fanatics should have to fund all schools. Problem solved.
  11. No Shirley for President, huh?
  12. I'm glad that when I make a mistake, it doesn't look anything like this
  13. I'm pretty sure that people who rent also get these magical benefits.
  14. She talks with trees and stuff, doesn't she?
  15. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    I'll read that now. Thank you for the information, it is very interesting. I need to amend what I wrote earlier--I am not anti-subsistance hunting. Not against anyone (so far as I know). People need to feed themselves, and hunting is obviously a way I agree with to achieve this fundamental need.
  16. Have you posted these? I would like to see them.
  17. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    Speaking of which, I think that is another thing that bothers me. Somehow, people view Native Americans as having the "right" to hunt and everyone else has the "privilege" to hunt. I don't thing that is healthy. It is a privilege that everyone should have the same process to apply for, pay for, get approval for, and respect the limitations of.
  18. I feel serious.
  19. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    the whales they are killing are supposedly on the rebound / not endangered. and shit we're wiping out fish stocks in the oceans these days. Whales cannot be managed like a herd of elk due to their large travel distances. So if killing them is allowed anywhere in the world, the whale numbers could not be controlled. Also, I don't think we know enough about the ocean and its balances to wipe out anything in it. But maybe I am mostly speaking for myself here as I do not know much about the waters.
  20. I'm arguing against property taxes period, not just after you've paid off your loan. at least for a primary residence that is. as for an inheritence tax - different topic. So technically, if everyone who owned land right now didn't sell it and only passed it on, then there would be no state income from land taxes. That would show em.
  21. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    Hell, I even catch and release trout--but I am not against fishing for food. But I don't think anyone should be allowed to take anything that is suffering dwindling numbers and is not able to be managed.
  22. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    I am against killing whales.
  23. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    And what about non-native folk who've been displaced by development or whatever? Do they qualify for special rights? No. I only agree with one exception: Americans With Disabilities have the right to use motorized assistance in those areas. Anyone who can walk gets to walk.
  24. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    whether native americans owned the land or not, they lived next to hunting grounds. now they don't, and not necessarily by choice. WTF does that have to do with driving four wheelers to a kill? I don't give a shit where anyone used to live. We all share the limited hunting grounds now. Sorry about what happened in our past--it is shameful. But that doesn't mean you get to drive wherever the fuck you want.
  25. archenemy

    Whale Hunting

    are they using the .557 to make it easier for them or to assuage the people who think it is inhumane and cruel to kill an animal the size of a whale in the "traditional" way? And you can tell in the article that using a .557 didn't end up quickening the animal's death. Hunting is a skill. It has to be learned. The first large game I shot didn't die right away either. For people to expect that every kill is going to measure up to their ideals (which are usually not grounded in reality as they have never been hunting) is ignorant. A little education around this might be helpful.
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