Re: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-10 Thread Bill Gallagher
Take the square foot for office space/raw land value charged in your community and extrapolate to one acre . Bill Craig McCluskey wrote: On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:37:38 -0400 Bill Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He has two home, one in LA worth 2.5 million land vale per acre

Re: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-09 Thread OK Don
What they say they believe, and what they practice are two different things. They practice creating conditions that are most favorable for the wealthiest. Th Democrats pratice creating conditions that are more favorable for the poorest. They both practice "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupt

Re: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-09 Thread David Brodbeck
Yup...we're paying with our taxes to subsidize an industry that's making record profit levels. Where's the sense in that? Didn't Republicans used to be the party that believed in free markets?

Re: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-09 Thread Mike Canfield
Simply putThe poor will ALWAYS support the LAZY RICH. Mike - Original Message - From: "Bill Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 2:13 AM Subject: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax i

Re: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-09 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:37:38 -0400 Bill Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He has two home, one in LA worth 2.5 million > > land vale per acre in LA is 95 million dollars That says the area of the land on which his house sat is 2.5 million -- x 43560 sq. ft / acre

Re: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-09 Thread Bill Gallagher
Bob asked: "As a stock holder in lucent do you see yourself as a member of the evil rich, or is that designation reserved only for share holders of publicly traded companies that green peace and the sierra club don't like?" What I see is about the same as Warren Buffet ( http://

Re: [MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-09 Thread Bob DuPuy
No Bill, I see local, state, and federal regulations and restrictions distorting the market to the point where it is not worth the trouble to build new capacity. When this occurs with a commodity with relatively inelastic demand and the price increases enough to cause the consumer to turn the heat

[MBZ] OT Oil Industry tax incentive

2005-10-09 Thread Bill Gallagher
Follow the logic in a capitalist USA ... like no other in the world both positive and negative .. The CEO of any company decides not to build plants for future expansion, but lets the supply and demand curve take effect and limit the amount into the market place . in other words the o