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Brew

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  1. Out at $70 or $75, whichever comes first. $75 will cover all my penny stock money I gave up by not selling some things a few weeks ago, so pulling for it.
  2. They moved the ball this morning, $65-$70 now.
  3. The front and rear 2.0 kit, it is my 3rd set. There are things I don’t like about them, but the market is pretty thin. I keep the factory front coil overs now in case the front set needs a rebuild before I trade it. The last set on my 2017 started to have some issues at 55k and really could have used a rebuild, but their rebuild process sucks if you don’t have a Fox shop nearby.
  4. The one of the left is detached and it’s deep. I can get two vehicles in the far left door bumper to bumper and then any size one in the right door. I just pray every morning my wife still has mirrors at the end of the day because the doors aren’t wide at all.
  5. Only bad part about them is the people before must have only driven compact sized vehicles. They have some tiny garage doors on them for the size of them for some reason. It’s night and day with the 10x14 doors I have on my shop.
  6. What meets the definition of substance for you? Boats most weekends? Cattle at the farm when we go to the sale? I can keep going if it makes you feel better. I’ve been through the reasons in this thread of why I stick with a 1/2 ton, but I’ll make sure to save you a seat at the adult table once you grow past the big boy stage.
  7. Call me old fashioned, but I want my trailer hitch to be a solid piece of welded steel with a ball on it. I don’t want shit that rotates, moves around, has pins, etc. The $40 solid piece from Auto Zone works fine. I also prefer the simple pop out step on the Fords, they are all going overboard at this point. It’s not that difficult to get in the truck bed.
  8. Taking my kids for the first time next week. We’re going to drive over to Snowshoe and see how they do. I signed them up for private lessons the first day because they just want to snowboard, so we’ll see how they do with that before figuring out the other days. Conditions will probably suck this late, but we didn’t want to fly so this was an easy trip.
  9. Haven’t ever posted the new F150 although it looks identical to the old F150. Finally got the Fox kit and bed cover in and installed after being back ordered for months.
  10. No solid ducks, we would find them everywhere during duck season. I’ve got guys I know that can’t stand duck that hunt all season. It’s stupid around here, but we’re on a major flyway and everyone duck hunts. I talked to a guy I know well a month ago that splits a property with 9 others. They tracked their season and killed a little over 3000 birds this year. They have been tracking it because they are trying to flip it for high dollar to these groups from north of us that come in and scoop up prime duck ground. Shit’s stupid and just turns me off to the whole thing. On the fishing front, I may go 100% fly this year and see how it goes. About 40 more days of all work, then I’m heading south to fish the start of tarpon season.
  11. To be clear, I have no issues with those that keep and eat whenever they get around to it or that give to others. That was what I meant with take what you will use. If I can get a trip to Alaska, I’m going to freeze enough salmon to keep me going for a long while. However, more often than not now when I’m at the docks, I see guys wasting whole fish, trimming the easy part of the filets and tossing the rest, trying to find guys in the parking lot to take their catch, etc. It’s even worse with duck hunters in our area. We used to own a convenience store near a major hunting area and they would find bags of ducks stuffed in the garbage cans every weekend morning.
  12. My interior designer on my office had the exterior of my building painted black. She knew we wouldn’t sign off on it, so she had it painted to try it out. She’s the wife of probably my largest client, so I just shake my head every time I pull in the parking lot at this point counting down the days until it needs a repaint.
  13. White is simple and works well. It doesn’t show dirt, it doesn’t show door dings, it doesn’t show scratches, etc, so it works well for my use. Dark colors are too much trouble. There are plenty of vehicles I wouldn’t buy white in, but I’m not buying them anyways. My wife refuses to even look at white. I had a white Escalade lined up and she balked. My kid picked out a white Escape though, so at least she has reasonable taste in colors.
  14. After dealing with the after effects of red tide fish kills, you can see a fishery recover quickly if people are responsible and reasonable. Sometimes it takes regulations to help push that along. On the topic of C&R, I’m probably close to 100% throw it back at this point. If anything, I’ll keep something to eat that night or the next or if there are issues where it doesn’t make sense to throw something back, but for the most part I’m fishing to be on the water. There are days when I’ll spend more time hanging out rather than actually throwing lures. The guides I fish with on occasion are 100% C&R also. They mainly guide for sight fishing though, so it makes sense. The older I get, the more conservationist I become in my thoughts. Take what you need and will use, not what you want. Duck hunters and fishermen seem to be the worst about it.
  15. Not a matte black fan on much of anything, but I’m on white truck #6 or 7 so take that for what it‘s worth.
  16. Up 4% on the day, was down 13% at one point. Had several 40%+ returns today, so I cashed some things out that had returned to positive to lower my spread and get some cash available for whatever pile of crap hits next week.
  17. 2-3 weeks ago was the time to convert to cash, now is the time to make your money. Of course, I also thought that same thing last week and earlier this week, so what do I know.
  18. For the same reason we have 100% bonus depreciation and Section 179, reinvestment inherently creates a wider base although there is an argument it just expands the gap. The rate should be higher, but I don’t think LTCG’s should be tied to income tax rates. There should be a larger base at 0% to encourage investment by lower income brackets and a higher rate than current on higher brackets.
  19. A flat tax is something that sounds great in principle, but our tiered tax structure is more fair in my personal opinion. I don’t mind paying a higher percentage than those on lower income tiers, I do mind paying more than the guy sitting beside me on the same tier. The QBI deduction and the arbitrary industries it applies to is the biggest pile of shit to come out in tax law in a while. Two self employed guys making $500,000, one may get a $100k deduction as long as he doesn’t work in a few professional service industries. That’s a $35k or so swing in tax bills on the same numbers.
  20. My wife will make sure to put my portion earned back into the economy. If she does not notice it, then it may help pay for a few extra feet on the next boat.
  21. I don’t think you have read or comprehended much of anything I’ve typed at this point. You clearly just want to feel better about everything by thinking you’ve added a new tax on the rich. That’s fine because I made it perfectly clear that it helps me personally for them to do it, so have at it. However, there isn’t one time where I’ve said I’m against the tax per se. I just am keenly aware of the problems with a valuation based tax and what that looks like in practice because I have years in practice trying to minimize estate tax issues and dealing with IRS auditors.
  22. A Mark? Really? You clearly fall into the third category above of the debate shit I read about on the Internet this morning while taking a dump. The mark is the guy touting the tax the rich mantra without understanding and working through the downsides of the proposal. Not looking at the downsides of proposed tax law and working through the alternatives is why we have the pile of crap we currently have. 10% variations don’t even come close without some sort of mandated calculation methodology. Take a business with one owner and then the same business with minority ownership. The sum of those individually owned valuations will not be close even though the business is worth XXX dollars. What about art, guns, jewelry, etc? Do I get to treat it like my bank financials and throw whatever I want on it? Am I going to have to have an outside valuation done every year or two? Are we just going to use a multiple of EBITDA valuation based on industry type? Is it going to be keyed to investments and not personal property like some have brought up? I can keep going if you need me to. The estate tax example is the perfect example even though you don’t follow it. It is a wealth tax. There is an entire planning industry out there built to get around it and an entire valuation industry built around avoiding it. Valuation based taxes are much more complicated than an income based scenario because valuation is arbitrary.
  23. I laid out 3-4 valuation questions in my response to your earlier points that create massive problems with an asset based tax model. Valuation based methodologies for non liquid or publicly valued assets is an interesting concept that is going to make a lot of guys in my industry well off unless they standardize the methodology of valuing things. We have tried it with an estate tax and it’s a failure from a valuation standpoint. I can give 10 accounting/law firms an estate with property, business interests, etc and I bet the estate tax owed doesn’t match on any of the 10. That is a problem in a tax system that is taxing valuations. As far as the income tax system, the simple answer is simplify it. Kill the QBI deductions, have a real discussion on capital gains tax, take out the social agenda items, restructure the corporate tax system, get rid of 100% bonus depreciation, lower rate structures, etc. There are a multitude of things that can be done, instead we’re going to sit around and wait on Trump’s tax changes to sunset and talk about wealth/estate tax issues.
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