Recent content by Brutul Tarew Marr_foh

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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    https://www.rainhail.com/pdf_files/MKTG/MKTG_4030.pdf That"s an example of the product. It"s not a scam and the USDA Farm Services Agency is very involved with it, I just think that the premiums are out of whack with the likelihood of a payment and the value of said payments. If people start...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    This is sort of true, but the monopoly in beef is in the feeders and packers. My place is what"s called a cow/calf operation. We have a herd of breeding cattle that give birth in the spring and when the calves are ready to wean in October we sell them to the feed lots. The beef is sold to you by...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    The aforementioned aunt is the only one taking a chunk out that is not contributing. She and her husband lived on the ranch when I was a kid and her husband worked here for 18 years so they were given some pretty significant shares. This was a perfectly fine situation until the two of them got...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Maintenance is a huge part of how I spend my time. We have ~50-60 miles of barbed wire fence to fix, some of which is probably 100 years old, 25ish water tanks with wells, spring boxes, windmills, solar panels, electric pumps, pipelines, etc., a dozen pieces of farm equipment that is all 20...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    I am just a hair below 500 cattle at the moment, and yes I think if I could find a lease to run 100ish more cattle on that would make the numbers work out a lot better. Financially the place is really pretty solid right now thanks to very good cattle prices the last couple years but if prices...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    I get this, I really do, but adding an employee would be adding complexity and cost which may not add revenue aside from making my life easier. Unfortunately becoming a bigger cattle operation means getting your hands on more land, which is nearly impossible to do these days. Land doesn"t come...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    I"m probably stretching throwing tree trimming in with the rockers and tapers of the world. I know jack shit about tree trimmers obviously. What you are saying about the generations of trimmers things sounds similar to the cattle business. There are guys I know that grew up on a ranch but...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Paying taxes means you"re making money. When it comes down to it, it means your business is doing well and you"re contributing to society. People that get a raise at their job don"t go home thinking "Oh my god think of all the income tax I"m going to have to pay now", they think "Sweet, I"m...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Or just STFU. Always an option.
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Cooking the books to make it look like you lost money or making capital investments at the end of the year is not intentionally losing money to reduce taxes. Obviously people try to minimize their tax burden as much as they can within the law, or in some cases outside the law, but that is not...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    I hate it when people talk about people losing money for tax reasons. Does this actually happen? What kind of a retard would want to lose a million dollars to save 300,000 in taxes? You don"t get farm subsidies if you don"t plant anything. I think you are protesting things that don"t actually...
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    Salary Negotiation

    It"s really a tragedy that the reward for being a good engineer most places is to never be allowed to do engineering again and instead push paper full time. Fuck that. You guys could follow my example and move to Montana and raise cows.
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    Green Monster Games - Curt Schilling

    All it takes to confirm it is for someone to log into EQ2 on Unrest and send a tell to Ngruk and ask if he registered on fohguild.org
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    Loot situation POP quit dicking us around

    It was funny to read that just to remember how many fanboys Furor had attached to his anus. How long was this before the big ultimatum?