[Vision2020] Tax breaks

[Donovan Arnold]

I don't know Ralph.

My family has a cabin on Lake CDA. Many of the people in those cabins have had them for decades and generations as vacation places because they couldn't afford to go anywhere else. They aren't rich, they just had the homes because they were cheap when they bought them or built them. Now, those simple cabin homes go for $100,000s and even millions because of people in big cities want getaways. To tax Spokane and Washington residents and local Idahoians huge amounts forcing them to forfeit a piece of their family history seems wrong. 

If you put a grandfather clause in there, I might see an exception. It is hard to save your cabin that your family built for $5,000 in 1948 because a Californian is willing to buy it for $700,000 and you get taxed on it more than you make. 

Best Regards,

Donovan 


--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu> wrote:
From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
Subject: [Vision2020] Tax breaks
To: "vision 2020" <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 8:43 AM

1. Don't fire any of the staff of the Idaho State Tax Commission. We need them to make sure that everyone pays his/her fair share of taxes. 
2. Eliminate the property tax break for non-resident home owners. Allow a break only for the principal residence of an Idaho resident. I see no reason why a rich man like Arnold Schwarzenegger of California should get a tax break on a vacation home in Idaho. Or why our millionaire governor should get such a break for more than one home.
Ralph Nielsen

Tom Hansen wrote:
I suggest that we start a letter-writing campaign.
Write to Governor Otter and DEMAND that tax breaks/cuts, that are currently in effect, be scrutinized and (in many cases) terminated.  
These tax breaks/cuts are not only cutting into employment, but also into our children's education.
But, then, I guess that we can always sell our water . . . maybe to California.
Idaho may not be scraping the bottom of the barrel yet.  But, as the saying goes, you can certainly see it from here.
Seeya round town, Moscow.
Tom HansenMoscow, Idaho

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