GEez, what a disaster!
GEez, what a disaster!
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RE: GEez, what a disaster!
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?
-Dik
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
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RE: GEez, what a disaster!
(something I took great PRIDE in at one time)
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
"...when logic, and proportion, have fallen, sloppy dead..." Grace Slick
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
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RE: GEez, what a disaster!
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Governments should never give money to business. They can be interest free loans as a secured creditor, payable on demand.
When it comes to property, they should be required to remediate it to the original condition. Even though the buildings are temporal, the land is not. Anyone purchasing property should require it be remediated, or alternatively be compelled to remediate it before they use it.
Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?
-Dik
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-'Product Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?
-Dik
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Cheers
Greg Locock
New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Cheers
Greg Locock
New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
That's standard; tax assessors refer to buildings as "improvements" and the large part of most property taxes, such as your house is mostly due to the house itself. But, YMMV, my house in Santa Clara County is assessed as 2/3rd value being the building, but Orange County has 45% of value being the building.
Obviously, each jurisdiction has its own agenda vis-a-vis property taxes; if the valuation were fully assessed only on the land, razing the building would do almost nothing to lower the taxes. A previous house of mine was assessed that way, only 18% of the value was assigned to the land, which is ludicrous, but it prevents someone from buying a house, razing and rebuilding, and then asking for a drop in assessment, since the newly built structure can be argued to be assessed purely on its construction costs.
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RE: GEez, what a disaster!
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Around 2009, the europeans became keen on renewable energy ( Engergiewende), and installed beaucoup solar collectors and wind turbines, which made redundant over 40 GWe of brand new gas fired combined cycle plants ( 50 Hz). This severely dampened the market for new gas turbines, but GE went ahead and purchased the assets of Alstom in 2016 anyway, which was hemaraging from lawsuits related to the failing dissimilar metal weld at the outlet of the HP once thru coolers ( 316H- P91 DMW). Buying Alstom was a management error as big as the recent Zillow boo-boo. Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end, and GE may be facing its end.
"...when logic, and proportion, have fallen, sloppy dead..." Grace Slick
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
That was all city residential with the one lot being 3x in valuation relative to the other; admittedly, it ought to have a view premium, but they're both in the same county, so the assessment protocol should be the same and the 2nd house ought not be valued at 2x the 1st, particularly given that they're almost identical in sf, although, the 2nd is a much nicer, and more modern house.
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RE: GEez, what a disaster!
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Also not to be political, but this is a business decision, as taxes affect the company bottom line.
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Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn
A huge tax break was supposed to create a manufacturing paradise, but interviews with 49 people familiar with the project depict a chaotic operation unlikely to ever employ 13,000 workers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-06...
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-'Product Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
But, that shouldn't be any surprise; companies figure out ways to take advantage of tax laws, and they come up with ways to take advantage of states' tax cuts/breaks. Otherwise, we'd have a glut of unemployed corporate tax lawyers, and that would be such a terrible tragedy.
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RE: GEez, what a disaster!
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Examples: When a new company requires the construction of a new sewer plant, or water plant. Or the business model requires a community to build a homeless shelter (because of the type of employees).
So for a server farm, or bit coin farm, they consume a large amount of electricity, but do not employ very many people.
Or for a meat processing plant, they produce a lot of waste water, and employ transits employees. So they need homeless shelters, new schools, and lots of rental property (mobile home parks).
RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Growing up in NY I saw many instances of folks getting caught up trying to force companies to "pay their "fair" share," not realizing until they left that employee income taxes supported far more locally. By pushing for the company to pay more they shot their town in the foot.
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RE: GEez, what a disaster!
Good Enough
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Later a court case resulted in a demand for GE to clean up the hudson river to minimize the PCB exposure to people and fish. The GE CEO told the NY state governor ( Hugh Carey) that if they persist in forcing GE to clean the river, then GE will move all of its employees out of NY state , so Gov Carey obliged GE and rescinded the order. We bring good things to life.
"...when logic, and proportion, have fallen, sloppy dead..." Grace Slick
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TTFN (ta ta for now)
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