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DalTxHornFan

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    IF we wanna get serious about missed-out revenue in Austin, we can start with the insane amount of land dedicated in Central Austin to State of Texas buildings.  And then Camp Mabry.  Oh yeah, I forget...citizens need to be near all those "services" between 11th & 18th street.  Meanwhile, that's the only place you can park in Central Austin because nobody goes to those fucking buildings except the people who work in them.  THey could just as easily go to work past 130, or NE Austin, or anywhere else cheaper.  

    That was kinda my point.  We do a lot of dumb stuff with property tax exemptions.

  2. 16 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Chronicle has had a good series this week about how Texas gives churches a tax break on homes for their clergy. No difficult for us to see how this could be abused. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/unfair-burden/article/parsonages-religion-texas-tax-free-clergy-homes-16678079.php

    Even when the property violates the requirement to be under 1 acre, many jurisdictions look the other way saying the state law is too vague to enforce.

    I think we can accept a scenario where a church is giving their 20k salaried pastor a home, perhaps not charging property tax is acceptable. But Kenneth Copeland has a 18,000 sq ft home valued at $7m and the local county gets squat in property tax.

    And we all realize why this is a problem. If Copeland doesn't pay his $150K annual tax (or whatever) on his estate, the money has to be made up from the rest of county residents. The law should be changed to only allow one or two exemptions per church and the exempted amount shouldn't surpass the median residential improvement value for that county. 

    Cool.  Now do the University of Texas Chancellor's tax free residence.

    Bauer house front entrance

    https://www.utsystem.edu/offices/events

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  3. ^This.  Most errbody not in the business of brewing (or distilling, for that matter) has much of a clue of how little the cost of making the liquid has to do with the cost of a finished retail product.

  4. 12 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    The Mafia is not nearly clever enough to figure out how to wash money using a domiciled in-house financing cash systems.  After the 1970's...it would blow you away how fucking stupid the Italian Cosa Nostra was.  I mean like legit mentally retarded.  Beyond fucking stupid.  They inherited a fool-proof system and managed to fuck if up to where it not only lost money, got them sent to prison, but it also made it so they killed each other so we wouldn't have to do it for 'em.  Literally the dumbest fucking "white people" in U.S. History were the Italians in 1980's United States.  If I sound racially insensitive, let me repeat, Italians are fucking stupid.  That they get to call themselves a part of any race is an offense to every single fucking race on the face of God's Green Earth.  

    That doesn't keep folks from trying to pull it off, though ...

    https://www.autonews.com/dealers/bart-reagor-found-guilty-making-false-statement-bank-reports-say

    https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/reagor-dykes-auto-group-timeline-and-how-the-wheels-fell-off

    https://kfyo.com/bart-reagor-proclaims-his-innocence-on-facebook/

  5. 47 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    McKool Smith has put the hurt on some pretty large entities in more expensive litigation than this will ever be.

    No doubt that they are a big-time law firm, but this lawsuit seems dubious.  I pay for surly, the WSJ, some legal and investigative databases erry month.  Does the City of Austin really get a piece of action from that?

    P.S. -- just started thinking about my other online services that I pay for:  AVG, Office 365, Dropbox, PACER, research.txcourts.gov.  Nuts!

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