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Comment on An Agenda For Building Meaningful Economic Wellbeing

Jule — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:18:03 GMT

racketeering plain and simple.

Comment on Giving Our Future Agriculture Some Thought

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:31:57 GMT

Finally, Doug, you're actually offering an opinion on something that actually has to do with agriculture.

You're right we need to start planning now to make certain the College of Agriculture survives and flourishes. One opportunity comes from the current collapse of housing, and will help change Nevada's urban dwellers current attitude toward agriculture from apathy to advocacy. With many housing developments cleared, and graded, but now bankrupt and abandoned, open land within the city limits of Reno and Las Vegas, (maybe Elko, too)is now available for urban farming. UN's agriculture students could help establish urban farms through agricultural programs established in our schools.

Corporate sponsors to pay for water for drip irrigation could be found. If the abandoned development is large enough, raising small livestock like chickens, goats, or sheep could be pursued. The crops, eggs and/or meat could be then donated to the food pantries as a terrific demonstration of how agriculture allows people to live.

The Kiley Ranch development in Sparks was foreclosed on. It's a huge abandoned development. It would be a perfect place for agriculture in Nevada to begin the change from being on a constant defensive to counter-attacking and gaining urban supporters.

Comment on Congress Needs To Stop The 2011 Tax Increases

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:08:46 GMT

With so much of our manufacturing capability having been shipped out of the country by wealthy American businessmen looking to exploit cheap labor, spending cuts alone won't get The Country out of debt. Taxes have to be raised. Maybe those screaming about high taxes now, should have been screaming for the Republicans to have been doing their jobs during the Bush Administration, and actually have regulated Wall Street.

Comment on We Need Candidates Who Put The Focus On Growing Private Sector Opportunity

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:03:18 GMT

Preferential treatment for businesses hasn't worked. It's why we're in the mess we're in. 68% of businesses in the U.S. pay no income tax at all. Most of those are huge corporations. SMALL businesses deserve more breaks. They're the ones paying their taxes.

Comment on We Need Candidates Who Put The Focus On Growing Private Sector Opportunity

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:59:05 GMT

There's a lot of screaming about tax rates for business. The Federal rate is 35%. However, 68% of the businesses in the U.S. pay NO income tax at all, at any rate. More preferential treatment isn't needed. Businesses, most of them huge corporations, need to pay up. SMALL businesses should be given more breaks.

Comment on Developing Progress For Ending Death Taxes?

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:54:44 GMT

I'll see your 35% tax rate, and raise you a $2 million exemption. Shut your pie hole, and ante up.

Comment on The Solution To Crash Wild Horse & Burro Management On Federally-Managed Lands

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:50:57 GMT

With no natural predators, wild horses have to be managed. BLM's methods have been crude and brutal. A better way needs to be found. The horses DO have to be managed. A balance between the horses, cattle, and the rest of the wildlife needs to be striven for, and found.

Comment on How Do You Justify Taxing Dead People’s Property?

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:44:32 GMT

The wealthy use their wealth to gain unequal access to government, and often get preferential treatment. Why should they scream when the government gets unequal access to their estates? The tax rate does sound too high, but other than adjusting it to a more reasonable level, I'm not outraged at the estate tax.

Comment on Getting The Level Of Nevada Government We Can Afford

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:40:04 GMT

Making businesses sacrosanct from taxes is ludicrous, while foisting the tax burden onto individual is total crap. A low tax distributed across both individual AND businesses will gather the funds necessary to maintain the infrastructure our higher populace needs. While government spending should always be reviewed for pork, we are now seeing the consequences for allowing uncontrolled growth. You invite a lot of people in, and don't consider what it takes to serve that larger population, this is what you get.

Comment on Owning Up To The Death Tax Burden

Lamar Aiazzi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:31:36 GMT

While the tax rate should be reduced to a more reasonable level, the estate tax should be re-instituted. Many of these super wealthy people got their way in demanding no oversight or regulation in their financial transactions, and helped crash the economy. Now they're going to help pay for it. Sounds just to me.