Call it what you want, but if it benefits the club monetarily, it's a subsidy.

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Jul 21, 2017
9:47:20pm

rmsenior Starter

Call it what you want, but if it benefits the club monetarily, it's a subsidy.

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Originally posted on Jul 21, 2017 at 9:47:20pm

Message modified by rmsenior on Jul 21, 2017 at 9:56:40pm

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rmsenior

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Joined: Jan 12, 2004
Last login: Apr 26, 2024
Total posts: 2,262 (9 FO)

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Wow that's a lot of money just to keep out the riffraff.

Radioactive Coug

7/21/17 6:31pm

How is their falconry program there?

7/21/17 6:33pm

...?...

Radioactive Coug

7/21/17 6:34pm

Sorry. Lame joke.

7/21/17 6:45pm

No it was fine. It was meant as a shrug because I'll never sniff the inside

Radioactive Coug

7/21/17 6:59pm

I hear ya. Get your kids to have rich friends though. There's a possibility...

7/21/17 7:02pm

Go listen to Malcolm gladwell's recent rivisionist history podcast on golfing

nashty

7/21/17 6:59pm

On country clubs, yes. On golfing, no.

Radioactive Coug

7/21/17 7:27pm

Didn't change me - it shined a light on his agenda of communism.

7/21/17 7:47pm

Maybe, but I do think the way the city has protected the clubs is ridiculous.

Radioactive Coug

7/21/17 7:49pm

His premise was on his hatred of golf... there are more states than Cali that

7/21/17 7:54pm

Of course. I don't think golf was really the issue. It was just a thought starte

Radioactive Coug

7/21/17 7:55pm

Just because he likes "best use" taxation - doesn't make certain taxes bad...

7/21/17 8:00pm

Sure, I see that. But even ignoring best use, it seems like the clubs are

Radioactive Coug

7/21/17 8:07pm

There are lots of sweetheart tax deals. City Pensions, Railroad Retirements...

7/21/17 8:14pm

LOL...so forcing a golf course, subsidized by all taxpayers for decades, to be

nashty

7/21/17 8:06pm

I know you're smarter than me - but why did you use the word subsidy??

7/21/17 8:22pm

Call it what you want, but if it benefits the club monetarily, it's a subsidy.

rmsenior

7/21/17 9:47pm

i am smarter for sure. i didn't use the word "subsidy" i used the word

nashty

7/22/17 9:56am

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