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1 hour ago, ColoradoHusk said:

My FIL lives in Hastings, and it sounds like the city decided against the final petition for one.

 

Do these new casinos allow sports gambling?  That's where the big $ is going forward.

Thanks for that update. 

I believe at this time it's  a yes on sports betting. Elite Casinos is the operator.

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2 hours ago, Cdog923 said:

 

I imagine there will be a continued obsession with property taxes, and the ruiniation of the state legislature. 

 

The obsession with property taxes is fine. The tax structure is out of whack. What we need is someone who has the balls to say yes, we do need to cut property taxes significantly, but we still have critical needs we have to pay for. Therefore, we will counterbalance property taxes with increased income taxes on the richest Nebraskans to compensate. That, or we will turn our state into an energy exporter by providing significant tax cuts for farmers who install wind and solar installations, and then significantly taxing the sale of the electricity produced. 

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2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Pot and gambling?

 

I'm not against legalizing either.  However, Colorado really hasn't seen anything improve with the budget since legalizing pot.  At least according to my BIL that lives there.

I mean, the pot tax is bringing in something like $300-400 million annually in Colorado, so it's doing some improvement of the state budget. But pot is just far, far less in cost than property, so it's always going to be a drop in the bucket compared to property taxes. Plus there's a lot less people in Nebraska, so the pot tax would probably be a lot less, I'm guessing around $30-50 million annually.

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3 minutes ago, Born N Bled Red said:

 

The obsession with property taxes is fine. The tax structure is out of whack. What we need is someone who has the balls to say yes, we do need to cut property taxes significantly, but we still have critical needs we have to pay for. Therefore, we will counterbalance property taxes with increased income taxes on the richest Nebraskans to compensate. That, or we will turn our state into an energy exporter by providing significant tax cuts for farmers who install wind and solar installations, and then significantly taxing the sale of the electricity produced. 

Problem is, doing the income tax has its drawbacks too.  We already have high taxes and that is pushing these people to leave the state when they retire.  Nebraska is already listed as a very poor state to retire in because of it.  Why not move to a state with much better weather and cheaper taxes?

 

The only way I see of property tax relief is to bring in some new form of income stream like gambling or pot.  But....I'm not sold that would be enough new taxes to make a difference.

 

I've come to realize we are just stuck with the taxes we have.....even though every politician campaigns on fixing it.

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49 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

I mean, the pot tax is bringing in something like $300-400 million annually in Colorado, so it's doing some improvement of the state budget. But pot is just far, far less in cost than property, so it's always going to be a drop in the bucket compared to property taxes. Plus there's a lot less people in Nebraska, so the pot tax would probably be a lot less, I'm guessing around $30-50 million annually.

And...that's the problem.

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1 hour ago, Born N Bled Red said:

 

The obsession with property taxes is fine. The tax structure is out of whack. What we need is someone who has the balls to say yes, we do need to cut property taxes significantly, but we still have critical needs we have to pay for. Therefore, we will counterbalance property taxes with increased income taxes on the richest Nebraskans to compensate. That, or we will turn our state into an energy exporter by providing significant tax cuts for farmers who install wind and solar installations, and then significantly taxing the sale of the electricity produced. 

 

Which district are you running in? 

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5 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

WTF is that top one? :wtf

 

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Let me translate these for the lay-person

 

1)  Get rid of sex ed in schools so we can keep our heads in the sand that teenagers will actually want to have sex with each other.  We will continue to push our agenda of abstinence, even though everyone knows that it's not realistic.  Also, the liberal sex ed teachers are going to turn our kids gay and we should only think about people who only believe in the union of a man and woman, and  have "normal" gender thoughts.

 

2) Even though America was built on the ideals of separation of church and state and the freedom of religion, we only think that freedom applies to Christianity.  We need to go back to a society where we push our thoughts and ideals to others.

 

3) Since public schools won't allow us to push our Christian agenda, we need to demonize the public school system and push for private, Christian-based schools so that we can go back to marginalizing those who aren't Christian or have beliefs that are different than our own.

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10 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

WTF is that top one? :wtf

 

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I've argued in other threads regarding the economy, open jobs, and low employment rate, that there are only two ways to find the employees to fill all these open jobs now that the Boomers are retiring out. The first is to make having more children more affordable for American families. That's clearly not going to happen. The second is to wrap your arms around immigration reform and get more people into the country, fast. 

 

Turns out I was wrong. They've found a third way. Restrict access to family planning services and products and then poor dumb kids will start having babies before college, have more kids, need low wage jobs just to scrape by, and refill the coffers of cheap uneducated labor for the rich to capitalize on. The wealthy will go to Canada or Europe to prevent their princesses from falling down that path. 

 

The funny thing is, all these kids will be born, to poor and middle-class families, and need welfare and other federal assistance to make ends meet (because dang it, no one should have to pay a living wage) and then all they do is complain about the welfare queens, the dirty uncared for kids, and the drain on resources they are even while capitalizing on their backs. It's sickening. 

 

Its the same way the wealthy (Pillen, Trump, etc) import illegal immigrants by the thousands so they can pay lower wages and then turn around and have the gall to tell the displaced American employee its the immigrants fault- what kills me is that people are dumb enough to buy it. 

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2 minutes ago, Born N Bled Red said:

 

I've argued in other threads regarding the economy, open jobs, and low employment rate, that there are only two ways to find the employees to fill all these open jobs now that the Boomers are retiring out. The first is to make having more children more affordable for American families. That's clearly not going to happen. The second is to wrap your arms around immigration reform and get more people into the country, fast. 

 

Turns out I was wrong. They've found a third way. Restrict access to family planning services and products and then poor dumb kids will start having babies before college, have more kids, need low wage jobs just to scrape by, and refill the coffers of cheap uneducated labor for the rich to capitalize on. The wealthy will go to Canada or Europe to prevent their princesses from falling down that path. 

 

The funny thing is, all these kids will be born, to poor and middle-class families, and need welfare and other federal assistance to make ends meet (because dang it, no one should have to pay a living wage) and then all they do is complain about the welfare queens, the dirty uncared for kids, and the drain on resources they are even while capitalizing on their backs. It's sickening. 

 

Its the same way the wealthy (Pillen, Trump, etc) import illegal immigrants by the thousands so they can pay lower wages and then turn around and have the gall to tell the displaced American employee its the immigrants fault- what kills me is that people are dumb enough to buy it. 

The un-educated, white, lower-to-middle class have never had an issue with income and wealth discrepancies, as long as it's white Christians who are controlling the wealth.

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