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  1. But note that in retirement, you'll hopefully have a HS exemption and a senior exemption (Over 65, IIRC).  Those should drive down your tax burden pretty significantly.  You'll freeze your ISD taxes, and drops the net appraised value for other taxing units significantly.  

     

    But back to hating on Austin's BS:

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  2. 1 minute ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

    That was crazy.  The ball almost hit the foot of one of the refs several feet out of bounds, and he didn't immediately call it out.

    Btw, what's the rule on Simmons' clapping penalty?  I know about snap simulation, but it appeared as if was just turning to his teammates to clap.  If he was actually trying to f with the snap, why wasn't he lined up in a way to take advantage of it?

    Such BS, he was just calling a timeout /Kirby

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  3. I mean, that Vandy game wasn't exactly short.  They had to circle jerk for 5 minutes just to figure out if there was a way to screw us out of the on-side kick.

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  4. 8 hours ago, Superhero said:

    Trying to log into my FSA benefits provider, and they are asking me to update to a 15-20 character password.

    Who da fuq has a 15-20 character password? Raise your hands to be rediculed.

     

    Get a password manager.  I do 40+ character passwords all the time.  Just remember your Password Manager password, and it does the rest for you.  Been preaching this to management for ages, to get them away from Password123 and other breached passwords.

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  5. 2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:


    Here’s a comparison I did for retirement.
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    You've gotta be a little more realistic with your comparison.  Your home value will vary wildly between each of these sites.  800K house might get you 700 sq ft in one state, and 3500 sq ft in another.  Utility costs, fuel costs, insurance costs, etc.  Comparing your 800 sq ft loft in Portland with a Prius vs a 3000 sq ft house in Leander with a Ram 1500 is not exactly apples to apples.

  6. I mean, if Kirby gets a harness cuck on his staff, we should employ someone to troll the refs the entire time up and down the sideline while Sark does his thing.  /s

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  7. 18 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    Show your work.  

    In 2015, the city spent $286 million on non safety from the general fund.  In 2025, it's 634 million!  What grown up goodies are we really getting for that extra 350 million?  You don't think a reasonable person could find 30 million to trim there?  Only Austin would consider a permanent tax increase to cover this.  It's insanity.  

    They've also attempted to grow the police force to match the officer per resident ratios, which was a major reason for the growth.  Again, not defending some of the dumb shit they do, but population growth leads to the necessary growth of Fire, Police, EMS.  The 4 employees per truck approach on the trucks, not sure how that stands up to national averages, but doesn't seem too out of line, either...

  8. Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

    After some back and forth, I’ve decided to vote for prop Q.  To be clear, I expect Prop Q to fail. I also expect the failure of Prop Q to launch careers and other initiatives that will cause this city real harm. 

    Im voting for prop Q for three main reasons:

    1)  Half of this increase covers essential needs. Yes, our homeless strategy is an incoherent, inhumane mess and it’s likely that 25-30% of this will be wasted or actively increase misery. That’s unfortunate but there is no reality but this one. 
    2) Austin’s city tax[e] rates are not too high and won’t be if this passes. We’re getting killed by recapture, and the people bitching the most about this increase are the same people who vote for the people robbing us blind while their party bans books and refuses  to reform property taxes.
    3) Most importantly, opposition to Prop Q has united the worst and most dishonest people in Austin’s public life, and they have run their campaign on the basis of misinformation and kicking down. Fuck them. 
     

     

    Are you kidding me?!  Every Pro-Q group is either one of the many homeless NGOs, or some other group of asshats funded by the City Council.  The dude that's the sock puppet for Love Austin PAC is Watson's former campaign manager, some kid that's maybe 2 years out of school and looks like John Belushi's morning shit.  This camp houses the grifters and shills of Travis County, the dishonest shitstains of public service and money-grabbing non-profits.

    The Anti-PropQ crowd is about as non-partisan as you can get for city of Austin.  I've seen the usual suspects (SAN and Mat Mackoviak) all the way to left leaning orgs saying avoid it at all costs.  The main point they've been trying to vocalize is that city council codes all their ancillary projects into the budget, and leaves the essentials on the chopping block to play to the voter base.  "Voting against Q is voting to cut police, fire, and essential city services," when in fact they need adults in the room that can set a budget within their means.  

    And to speak to point 2, no one in here is saying the AISD taxes are acceptable, but AISD taxes aren't on the ballot.  Recapture needs to be audited and rebalanced, as it seems to have completely overshot the initial desired outcomes of bringing the small districts into parity with the big ones, and now all the big districts are suffering.  The fact we elected last go-round to jack up AISD taxes to the sum of $90M just so the district could pocket $20M says how fucked recapture is, and how stupid the voter base is to keep voting for every damn tax increase.

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  9. 3 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

    If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!

    Cheaper than Houston or Dallas

    https://quickelectricity.com/texas-electricity-rates-per-kwh-by-city/

    Whats your deal?

    First off, does the Price / kwh factor in fees?  Austin has a ton.  Second off, Houston is not a monopoly.  I can't speak for Dallas, but when I lived in Houston, we had the choice in power provider, so you can actually shop around.  Austin, on the other hand, has no choices, if you're in Austin or a large swath of Travis County, you're forced to use them and pay their fees that are back-filling the general fund of the City of Austin.  If you're "donating" this amount of money back to the general fund, it makes you wonder what kind of overcharging they're doing.

    https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/why-does-austin-energy-transfer-millions-back-to-the-citys-general-budget/

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  10. Austin Energy itself is a giant fucking scam.  They're a monopoly, and they stack fees on your bill to, well: 

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    https://austinenergy.com/rates/residential-rates/other-line-items-on-your-bill

    Other Line Items on Your Bill

    Charges and Fees

     

    Community Benefit Charges

    The Community Benefit Charges include:

    • Customer Assistance Program (CAP) — The City of Austin Customer Assistance Program provides assistance to qualifying low-income and disadvantaged residential customers in the Austin Energy service territory. CAP provides bill discounts, such as waivers of Austin Energy's Customer Charges and a 10% reduction of electric charges.

      Learn more about the Customer Assistance Program
       
    • Service Area Lighting — The Service Area Lighting component recovers the costs of street lighting (except for those maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation) and the operation of traffic signals in the City of Austin. Customers who live outside the City do not pay these charges.
       
    • Energy Efficiency Programs — The Energy Efficiency Programs piece recovers the cost of energy efficiency programs. This includes rebates offered to residential customers to make improvements to their homes to reduce their electric bills.
       
      • Energy Efficiency Improvements — This component recovers costs for Austin Energy rebates and incentives, which can reduce the cost of making energy efficiency improvements to homes, businesses, or multifamily properties.

        Learn more about Austin Energy Rebates and Incentives
         
      • Solar — This component includes recovery of the cost for solar rebates to encourage the installation of rooftop solar systems. These systems help decrease long-term costs for Austin Energy and the ERCOT system.

        Learn more about rebates for installing a solar system in your home
         
      • Green Building — This component recovers the costs for Austin Energy Green Building, which promotes and implements policies and guidelines to increase energy efficiency and sustainability in the construction of new homes and businesses.

    If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!

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  11. Man, that's some damn good service right there.  The big names around Austin would just upsell you to the next tier if they had a part missing, to the tune of a couple grand more.  Used to use Precision religiously, but when Fox Service bought them out, it went WAY down hill.

    They came out a few months ago to troubleshoot the indoor unit not working.  Sent a greenish tech, and they triaged the unit for a good 2 hours, replaced the transformer then put a fan motor on order.  Given this was a Friday afternoon around 4, they couldn't get the motor in hand until at least the next day.  I called the office the next day, and swapping the fan motor is considered a new install, so they had to assign a different tech to return and install the unit, and installers only work M-F 8-5 hours, so had to sit the entire weekend.  Fast forward to Monday, they tried to duck out for another no AC call, but the tech had already talked to me, and I told him the situation, and he came early and swapped the motor for me.

     

    Now 2 months later, they come out for an annual maintenance on the system, and they stated we really need to clean the fan (the one they pulled 2 months prior to swap the motor) and it was $800 to clean it since they'd have to pull it again.  Could have easily taken a brush to it for 2 minutes while it was out of the system and knocked off all the dust and debris before mounting the new motor, but that would have made too much sense, right?

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    That's very fancy.  I was told right here on this board all you needed was some peanut butter and a Lab.  

    Watch out, blacklab has had people banned for less

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  13. 25 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    I fucking HATE what the homeless fucksticks have done to this city. Got damned so fucking sick of them. 

    They are ASSWATER!!

    When the same suspects keep getting elected to City Council, the homelessness crisis isn't going to subside.

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