Ranchers, farmers brace for 'death tax' impact

I remember this old guy who owned a farm near where I lived in Texas. If you came to his farm you didn't have to announce yourself, he wouldn't shoot you. He'd let you wander his lands and look around. Then around dinner time or when it was getting late he'd come find you and say "It's getting late, why don't you stick around for dinner and I'll drive you back to your place after?"

Man always said grace with every meal. Was just him and his wife.

When he died, his wife lost the farm land to the death tax. His kids inherited the house, put her in a home and sold it. The animals were sold wholesale to slaughterhouses.

Damned shame. Isn't just the government killing farms, it's the mentality of the age.

for your information, sir bastard, I never said i was entitled to it, I simply said they wouldnt even let you step foot on the property without shooting you. If they had a pond for instance they most likely wouldnt even let you fish in it, or wildflowers growing along their property, they wouldnt let you pick one for your wife. Greedy bastards. and Im actually in my Living room on my computer in my house, so....

Go Fuck yourself buddy

There is a legal way around it. Put your heirs on the deed, giving them full ownership under trust. When you die, they immediately become owners without going through probate.

thats right, there a few good ones left, most of them though are children who inherited the property and they think their the shits.

Haha, I think you forgot the /sarcasm tag, because otherwise you are a friggin idiot!

Did you even think about the logic behind that statement?

Bingo. This kind of law will destroy stupid farmers. The smart ones form a corporation. It's really that simple.

I don't understand this whole greedy rich people mentality. My parents were not rich. They worked their butts off to get what the had and lived a very modest lifestyle. Their small ranch (about 60 acres) was valued at 1 million 10 years back and after the appraisal last year was valued at $400,000. The housing market is still tanking. The CD that was left in addition to the property went to the State for inheritance tax and was the money our mother inherited from her aunt back in 1975. She used the interest to help live off of so she could financially survive in her old age. People have to look to how they will survive when they get older and not be totally dependent upon government handouts. This is what being self-sufficient is about. Being responsible for oneself and helping the next generation get a toe-hold in how to maintain themselves when they get older.

The problem is government and the banksters want all the money for themselves and are constantly looking for ways to take it whether it's legal or not. And taking from dead people (parents) what is meant to go to their children is just wrong.

When the stupid old fart dies, his worthless, drug-addicted lazy son(s) can become the new "presidents" or "CEOs" of the "corporation" until they finally lose everything buying coke and meth.

Agenda 21 dictates the UN must own and control all sources of food production.

People like you always bother me.

I used to plant and care for wildflowers in the front of the farm. But why when idiots show up an pick all of them. No-one ever asked. None of the idiots who stole my flowers helped pay for the wildflower seeds, helped weed or care for the wildflowers that I grew. But they were happy to walk illegally onto my property and strip every flower off it's stem.

As for the fish pond. - Are you offering to pay for the stocking, feeding, and maintenance of those fish? If not, then you don't have a right to ask.

If I showed up to your house uninvited, how would you feel if I helped myself to the contents of your fridge, to the clothes in your closet, and to the jewelry in your wife's jewelry box??? Are you a greedy bastard that would deny me things of yours that I want???

No shit dude. You mind if I park my car in your driveway? Mind if I use the corner of your yard as a vegetable garden for myself? Mind if my kids play tag in your yard next to your bedroom window? Where did you learn this stuff?

You where Raised around Farms...

Your A Troll and a Dick Face..

are you kidding??? Do you know almost all ranchers are selling off their cattle because the price of feed has gone up so much? I was born and raised on a farm like this and we were far from rich. You're lucky to net $70k a year after paying bills and debts to the bank. The electricity bill for an average farmer that irrigate his land is almost $30k a month! Pull your head out of your ass! You have no clue how this operation works, there are huge overhead associated with a farm.

NewsUpdater is your aids under control

Ignorance is bliss, so they say. Is that really so? You just go to the store and buy your food which farmers grow and complain they don't do anything? Who the heck do you think DOES grow your food if not the farmer?

This is the solution. Why doesn't the family farmer incorporate so he is running a business. When he dies, the stock owner (his family) would run the business.

problem solved

You are dealing with fucking morons my friend who know nothing about farming and ranching.......... wasting your breath and raising your blood pressure for nothing as they will not change. In fact many of them on here are doing this just to raise your blood pressure because they are in fact people who get off on that sort of thing.

Even people I grew up with think we just sit around on the porch watching the grass grow and counting our dollars. None of them would put the days in that I do. None of them know the cost of operation. I learned long ago to tell them all to piss off and not bother me............. cause they all wanted to buy cheap beef off of me or hunt on my land, while telling me how good I have it........... as I drive along in my 1997 Ford pickup and wonder how in hell I am going to manage to replace my old tractor that is on its last legs.

Take it easy my friend and avoid this stuff. I mostly do as I get enough stress just trying to keep things going without dealing with brain dead urbanites. They think they know everything and how all farmers/ranchers live by reading about the government handouts for farms that are paid not to grow soya and corn............. and think it is like that for everyone across the board.

I must live in a better Farming community then you who post such hate about Farmers and Ranchers! Many of the Farmers/Ranchers here often share some of their yield, invited others to hunt on their land etc.. Most are struggling to keep producing and keep their homes/land!
A lot of them not only work their land but have resorted to having jobs to offset their expenses.. so they not only work 8 to 10 hrs at a job, but, they also work 8 to 10 hrs on their Farms/Ranches!! getting little sleep to boot!
What a lot of you do not realize is that many Farmers/Ranchers have been paid by the Govt. to NOT produce! That way the Govt. can force Americans to buy imported foods!!
If you are trying to put food on the table and your product is losing money or the restriction for selling your product is creating a loss--and the Govt. tells you they will give you X amount to only produce and sell X amount (or a certain way-hybred, altered etc..) or not to produce at all, and then they will let you keep your land/business..

Well its not just the Farmers/Ranchers who fell for this BS...just look around--can you get an AMERICAN/ENGLISH speaking person when you call a company about anything??? Where are your clothes made??? Where are the replacement parts for your vehicles made??? Where do we get our steel, wood, and our food from???

American goods were shitcanned long ago and the producers of those goods were handed a choice and they chose! We are no longer a Country that produces but a country that buys and sits idle while TPTB IV their poison into our bodies and brains! LAZY and USELESS, STUPID F**KS is what most Americans have become! Most have no pride or selfworth!!
and this TAX like ALL TAX and those saying that OTHER PEOPLES HARD EARNED MONIES belongs NOT TO THOSE WHO WORK FOR IT BUT THOSE WHO DO NOTHING IS WHY AMERICA IS A DEAD COUNTRY!!!
I live here, I respect my Farmer/Rancher neighbors, I work side by side with many of them. I see their pain and listen to their hopes.. I understand their fears!
If you think they are lazy and contribute nothing--well KEEP EATING YOUR PLASTIC-CHEMICALLY INFUSED-NON NUTRITIOUS-MICROWAVABLE GUNK!!! Your body will not thank you, the cancer and drug companies, AND the Govt. WILL!!

You are an unmitigated nincompoop. You are displaying the leftist entitlement mindset... wahhhh wahhhh you are richer than me wahhh wahhhhh

Land ownership is the difference between being serf and master.

The freedoms that we enjoy (what's left of them) in this country are DIRECTLY related to the ability to own our own land.

If you are so damn jealous, go get yourself some land and you can be master of your own territory. Not some pitiful whining serf. Idiot.

What a fuckwit.

I think the entire purpose of the estate tax and of many other aspects of our system and social engineering, is to prevent the formation of dynasties that would compete with the existing dynasties that are in power.

The Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, etc, all safely secured their fortunes generations ago. They want to make sure that new, rich and powerful organizations that put their resources to work to shape society, will never spring up in opposition to them.

you my friend are one dumb piece of shit and shut fucking mouth.

EVERYONE should be exempt from this nonsense!!!

THIS

People need to learn to adjust to the new paradigm. Nothing is going to push us off this course we are on because we've been betrayed for decades now and nothing is changing. That means we are going to be the ones who change. Our thoughts and our plans for the future and heirs are no longer going to work the way they have in the past.

Adjust your thinking or get prepared to be royally screwed. You know what's going on now, you have a right to bitch but being stubborn in your thoughts is only going to hurt you and your own families.

I'm just the messenger, don't shoot me, I'm telling you straight out what you need to hear to make better decisions when planning for the future.

Pay the pauper?? Do you mean pay the PIPER?

Just another way for the gov't to control food sources.. how much is produced, how it's produced and to ultimately starve us to death.