11-06-2020, 04:14 PM
(11-06-2020, 03:44 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Getting rid of fracking would kill a lot of states. North Dakota benefits greatly from fracking. They fund free college education because of their fracking. A big portion of their jobs and economy is fracking.
Fracking has also caused a 900% increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma. This is not a crazy internet claim. It is ytrue and even the oil companies have admitted it.
(11-06-2020, 03:44 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Estate taxes hurt farmers, because farms mostly stay in a family. Farms don't make much money, but the land is worth a lot. So when a farm is given to a descendent the land might be worth hundred of thousands of dollars (maybe even millions), but because farmers don't make very much at all they can't afford to keep it. I don't really oppose all estate tax in the most part, but when it comes to farmers (who don't make much) have to pay TONS for property that's already paid off by there family is pretty ridiculous.
If a farmer can not afford to pay the taxes on a farm he gets FOR FREE then he does not deserve to own a farm. Also all gain of value (capital gains) is TAX FREE when a farmer inherits a $10 million dollar farm his daddy bought for $200K.
It cracks me up when farmers start crying about having to pay inheritance taxes in order to get millions of dollars of property FOR FREE.
People who have to work to get millions of dollars have to pay taxes on that income. Why shouldn't people who get millions of dollars of property for free also have to pay taxes on it.
(11-06-2020, 03:44 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: The 2015 Obama "Clean water act" update hurt farmers because it made streams federal property and made it hard to use the streams on their property to irrigate their crops and supply water to their cattle. Sure, that would help people in big cities by claiming all streams as federal property, but it doesn't help farmers at all.
The clean water act did nothing for people who live in cities. What it did was help make sure the farmers who needed the water from these streams were not poisoning there crops or live stock with pollution.
(11-06-2020, 03:44 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: One solution in one area could cause a big problem in another.
Exactly. And that is why we have a federal government to do what is best for THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. Each state is free to elect whoever thy want for their own state. BUt when it comes to electing a President who is responsible for the entire nation the votes of people in less populated states should not count more than the people from more populated states..
There are lots of decisions that effect different parts of the country different ways, but when deciding what is bets for the entire country the vote of each individual should count the same.
