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January 19, 2011 at 3:37 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #656630January 19, 2011 at 3:37 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #656768
UCGal
Participant[quote=enron_by_the_sea]Does anyone know what new things were introduced this century (i.e. after 2000) in buildings?
Perhaps better energy efficiency?[/quote]
Title 24 (energy codes) have definitely gotten stricter in the 2000. They roll out new standards every couple of years.January 19, 2011 at 3:37 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #657098Participant[quote=enron_by_the_sea]Does anyone know what new things were introduced this century (i.e. after 2000) in buildings?
Perhaps better energy efficiency?[/quote]
Title 24 (energy codes) have definitely gotten stricter in the 2000. They roll out new standards every couple of years.January 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #655966Participant[quote=briansd1]UCGal, you’re lucky to have an architect husband to fix up your house.
Are you keeping track of all the work and how much it would cost “retail”?[/quote]
I have no idea. But it would have been done quicker. LOL.January 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #656027Participant[quote=briansd1]UCGal, you’re lucky to have an architect husband to fix up your house.
Are you keeping track of all the work and how much it would cost “retail”?[/quote]
I have no idea. But it would have been done quicker. LOL.January 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #656625Participant[quote=briansd1]UCGal, you’re lucky to have an architect husband to fix up your house.
Are you keeping track of all the work and how much it would cost “retail”?[/quote]
I have no idea. But it would have been done quicker. LOL.January 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #656763Participant[quote=briansd1]UCGal, you’re lucky to have an architect husband to fix up your house.
Are you keeping track of all the work and how much it would cost “retail”?[/quote]
I have no idea. But it would have been done quicker. LOL.January 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM in reply to: OT: length of lifetime for different decades built houses #657093Participant[quote=briansd1]UCGal, you’re lucky to have an architect husband to fix up your house.
Are you keeping track of all the work and how much it would cost “retail”?[/quote]
I have no idea. But it would have been done quicker. LOL.Participant[quote=sdrealtor]Yes and that is my insurance they wont stay too long. As my mom always taught me, fish and company start to stink after 2 days.[/quote]
Wow – your mom is harsher than Ben Franklin – he gave fish and guests 3 days in the Poor Richard’s Almanac of 1736. LOLParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]Yes and that is my insurance they wont stay too long. As my mom always taught me, fish and company start to stink after 2 days.[/quote]
Wow – your mom is harsher than Ben Franklin – he gave fish and guests 3 days in the Poor Richard’s Almanac of 1736. LOLParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]Yes and that is my insurance they wont stay too long. As my mom always taught me, fish and company start to stink after 2 days.[/quote]
Wow – your mom is harsher than Ben Franklin – he gave fish and guests 3 days in the Poor Richard’s Almanac of 1736. LOLParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]Yes and that is my insurance they wont stay too long. As my mom always taught me, fish and company start to stink after 2 days.[/quote]
Wow – your mom is harsher than Ben Franklin – he gave fish and guests 3 days in the Poor Richard’s Almanac of 1736. LOLParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]Yes and that is my insurance they wont stay too long. As my mom always taught me, fish and company start to stink after 2 days.[/quote]
Wow – your mom is harsher than Ben Franklin – he gave fish and guests 3 days in the Poor Richard’s Almanac of 1736. LOLParticipant[quote=pri_dk]
A flat tax rate isn’t simple. It’s simple-minded. A platitude that almost no one understands.
[/quote]I agree with this.
I hear a lot of people argue for and against a flat tax without stopping to consider how it works.A true flat tax means No Deductions. No mortgage interest rate deductions, no deductions for kids, childcare, etc. No deductions. No sheltering earnings by contributing to a 401k. FLAT tax means that you pay tax on every dollar of income. No more adjusted gross…
This is pretty straight forward for wage earners. Less so for corporations and self employed.
Is it net income? – what constitutes an expense? Do you allow businesses to deduct expenses when you do not allow individuals to make deductions? Is that fair? Do you allow depreciation of assets? How do you write off inventory?
It sounds simple but the reality is that there are teams of lobbyists ready to go to battle to protect their specific deduction.
Now if you’re talking about a marginal flat tax – that allows deductions – and we’re back in the same mess we have now. Just a variation of it. Who decides what deductions apply? How does it work with corporations?
Or we could go with a consumption flat tax – a VAT. That’s what Forbes proposed. That would just push entire sections of the economy under the table. (As it is in Europe.)
Flat tax sounds good until you look at how it would actually work.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]
A flat tax rate isn’t simple. It’s simple-minded. A platitude that almost no one understands.
[/quote]I agree with this.
I hear a lot of people argue for and against a flat tax without stopping to consider how it works.A true flat tax means No Deductions. No mortgage interest rate deductions, no deductions for kids, childcare, etc. No deductions. No sheltering earnings by contributing to a 401k. FLAT tax means that you pay tax on every dollar of income. No more adjusted gross…
This is pretty straight forward for wage earners. Less so for corporations and self employed.
Is it net income? – what constitutes an expense? Do you allow businesses to deduct expenses when you do not allow individuals to make deductions? Is that fair? Do you allow depreciation of assets? How do you write off inventory?
It sounds simple but the reality is that there are teams of lobbyists ready to go to battle to protect their specific deduction.
Now if you’re talking about a marginal flat tax – that allows deductions – and we’re back in the same mess we have now. Just a variation of it. Who decides what deductions apply? How does it work with corporations?
Or we could go with a consumption flat tax – a VAT. That’s what Forbes proposed. That would just push entire sections of the economy under the table. (As it is in Europe.)
Flat tax sounds good until you look at how it would actually work.
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