Basements (full and partial/walkout) in homes are rather common at least in my part of tornado alley (Iowa)

People seem to love to hate on Nascar, as though F1, Indycar, and other racing series (and all professional sports in general) don’t have pretty much the exact same rules when it comes to recreational drugs and performance enhancing substances.

The government is trying to collect on taxes that were never paid by the original owner.
That is not the case. That is an assumption based on the notion that inherited assets must have increased in value. Unless you account for what the assets were purchased for then one cannot assume that there ever was a gain to…

Farms don’t just mean cereal crops. Its also fruit/nut trees, grapes, animal husbandry and the like.

My old man is considering planting a species of nut tree on a 50acre spot my grandfather had that previously had been used for cereal crops. The very definition of a small farm. Presently its value is indeed well under…

What you are neglecting to remember is that the heirs may not have intended to sell it.

Until they sell it there really is no gain.

The way this tax works would be not unlike government noticing that a house you bought has appear to appreciate in value by 50% and deciding that they want to collect that gain today.…

The entire purpose of the estate tax is to be a cudgel against political enemies.
They collect almost nothing on it.

Its a really stupid idea for a tax anyway as its based on its assumed value at a particular time, regardless of the heirs intend to keep it or to sell it.

Image your Windows partition just in case

What is ‘the common good’?

Your definition is almost certainly different than mine, and different from Joes, and different from Bobs, and different from Jacks, and different from Janes and so on.

As such, there is no such thing as ‘the common good’
At best all that can be done for some people to try and impose through…

Shotguns (with slugs) are the preferred method of taking deer in the Mid West, and North East. Though muzzle-loading rifles, revolvers, and in some States, rifles with straight wall pistol ammunition of sufficient power are legal as well, they just aren’t as widely used.

These states have higher population densities…

Shotguns are multi-taskers.

Shotgun shells can be filled with a variety of sizes of shot (the little balls inside) depending on the intended use...birds, rabbits, turkey, deer, personal protection, door breaching, whatever.

Exactly

Its probably illegal for them to make a useful MIL.

I’d say another sign of a BS poll is one that shows rather lopsided results on a policy question.

Anything over say 75% is probably suspect.
Not to say it couldn’t be accurate, but such unanimity in politics is rare (and often scary)

I don’t have particularly hard, or heavily chlorinated water but I have noticed a difference in taste and level of rise for pizza dough when using water straight from the tap vs running through a 3 stage filter.

Ultimately grabbing a few ounces of filtered water takes very little time so may as well use it.

Most pizza I eat is made at home because a bread maker is most useful as a pizza dough maker, and it only takes about 10 minutes of active kitchen time to do, so its also one of the fastest made from (almost) scratch meals you can make, provided you knew you wanted pizza 90+ minutes earlier and thus already made the…

They’ve got that ‘confront your accuser’ thing solved by deciding that the accuser is government, not the supposed complainer.

All this does is makes it more expensive for people to earn a living and harms the economy while protecting the big businesses that people complain about.

Exactly.

I would not at all be surprised to find that 8 out of 10 complaints about a home based business are actually made by a competitor that runs an established…

Because the end goal is profit of course.

Or minerals/mining, or low wage factory work that is a safer and more prosperous gig than they would have subsistence living on a farm even if in a western context they look underpaid.

For the hard-core, take them hunting.

My middle sister would go on hunting dates with her husband before they were married.

In real life, the forces of hatred, bigotry and violence are winning so much lately

Bullshit