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<blockquote data-quote="menotyou" data-source="post: 901351" data-attributes="member: 24535"><p>I will tiptoe into this thread. The farmers around me all have brand new trucks with commercial plates that they don't pay taxes on. My volvo has more mud on it that any of those trucks. Why are they allowed to say its a farm truck and not pay taxes, if it never goes into the field? They repaint rust buckets in the yard so they can re-evaluate the value and write it off, again, for the 20th year. In the meantime, that rust bucket has been replace 20x over with brand new top of the line John Deeres. Gorgeous machines. I wish I wasn't paying for it. their land is taxes at a much lower rate than mine. I don't grow corn that is subsidized on my higher taxed land. So, he not only gets a tax break because he is a farmer, but he get's paid to grow corn that he can turn around and sell for $5 a bushel because of this ethanol requirement. A requirement that makes me pay more for gas. Not the farmer. He has a tank on the farm with tax free gas he can put in his tax free brand new truck that never goes into the field. And, these farmers? They came from Connecticut. They were made millionaires from the big dig buyout. Don't feel any pity for these guys. They feel none for you.</p><p></p><p>It may be different in other parts of the country, but that's how it is here in Ellisburg.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="menotyou, post: 901351, member: 24535"] I will tiptoe into this thread. The farmers around me all have brand new trucks with commercial plates that they don't pay taxes on. My volvo has more mud on it that any of those trucks. Why are they allowed to say its a farm truck and not pay taxes, if it never goes into the field? They repaint rust buckets in the yard so they can re-evaluate the value and write it off, again, for the 20th year. In the meantime, that rust bucket has been replace 20x over with brand new top of the line John Deeres. Gorgeous machines. I wish I wasn't paying for it. their land is taxes at a much lower rate than mine. I don't grow corn that is subsidized on my higher taxed land. So, he not only gets a tax break because he is a farmer, but he get's paid to grow corn that he can turn around and sell for $5 a bushel because of this ethanol requirement. A requirement that makes me pay more for gas. Not the farmer. He has a tank on the farm with tax free gas he can put in his tax free brand new truck that never goes into the field. And, these farmers? They came from Connecticut. They were made millionaires from the big dig buyout. Don't feel any pity for these guys. They feel none for you. It may be different in other parts of the country, but that's how it is here in Ellisburg. [/QUOTE]
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