<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I don't know Ralph.<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Donovan <br><br><br>--- On
<b>Tue, 2/10/09, Ralph Nielsen <i><nielsen@uidaho.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen@uidaho.edu><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Tax breaks<br>To: "vision 2020" <Vision2020@moscow.com><br>Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 8:43 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1934440038"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">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. </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;">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.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ralph Nielsen</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Tom Hansen wrote:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">I suggest that we start a letter-writing campaign.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font
style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">Write to Governor Otter and DEMAND that tax breaks/cuts, that are </font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">currently in effect, be scrutinized and (in many cases) terminated. </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size:
13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">These tax breaks/cuts are not only cutting into employment, but also into </font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">our children's education.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">But, then, I guess that we can always sell our
water . . . maybe to </font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">California.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">Idaho may not be scraping the bottom of the barrel yet. But, as the </font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">saying goes, you can certainly see it from here.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">Seeya round town, Moscow.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">Tom Hansen</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="4" face="Courier">Moscow, Idaho</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div>
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