Calif now will assess lumber 1%

nil · Post by **nil** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:09 pm

Seems like they are encouraging me to chop down all the trees on my property and turn them into lumber for my own use. I have been wondering how the orange tree with the vile tasting oranges in my back yard would look on the inside... Been wanting to chop it down for ages since rotting fruit leads to rodents.

skou · Post by **skou** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:47 am

Nil, that is most likely a bitter orange tree. I see them all the time here in Mesa, as landscaping.

Can you grow oranges in Mt View? I lived in Sunnyvale as a kid, and my father's family shipped us oranges every summer, from here.

I don't know about working citrus wood, but it is valuable as a smoking wood. Just gotta let it dry out for a GOOD year.

On an off subject, I love the smell of walnut being cut with dull tools, wonder how it would be to smoke with. (If you could afford it!)

steve

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:19 am

One percent doesn't sound like a lot but 1% of all the money paid for lumber harvested in the state is a tidy sum.

If there was some assurance that this money would be spent for a proper purpose it might be okay. But I suspect that it will be spent for things like unreasonably high union salaries, pensions and vacations (referred to as working sessions) or some other frivolous thing that yields no benefit to the general public.

If I thought that this just a California problem, I might not give it a second thought but this attitude is creeping across the entire country.

foxtrapper · Post by **foxtrapper** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:25 am

Adding a charge to pay for advertising of the product is not a new idea.

ShopSmith includes their advertising costs in the prices of their products. You, as the consumer, are paying for their advertising.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:50 am

foxtrapper wrote:Adding a charge to pay for advertising of the product is not a new idea.

ShopSmith includes their advertising costs in the prices of their products. You, as the consumer, are paying for their advertising.

Adding a little tax or a small fee here and there is certainly not a new idea.

Have you looked at your phone bill or your utility bill lately.

fjimp · Post by **fjimp** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:28 pm

In Colorado we are taxed for premiums paid on insurance. Thus we not only pay health insurance premiums but are paying taxes on the privilege of having done so. Recently it was announced that new road projects will paid for by those roads becoming toll roads.

I for one think that we the citizens should be allowed to collect taxes from politicians on all of the funds they raise when running for office.

nil · Post by **nil** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:18 am

skou wrote:Nil, that is most likely a bitter orange tree. I see them all the time here in Mesa, as landscaping.

Can you grow oranges in Mt View? I lived in Sunnyvale as a kid, and my father's family shipped us oranges every summer, from here.

Yes. Apparently in the late 1800s the whole area (including sunnyvale next door to mountain view) was all orchards. My front lawn continues to grow even when I don't water it for weeks... being from Texas originally, having things grow so easily is unusual for me.