Whoa!
Seeing as how I make a living off a Macromedia product (ColdFusion, which gets no mention in the article, of course.), this bears watching.
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Reality TV winners get tax reality check
“You can ruin someone’s life by giving them everything they want,” one Hollywood producer told the trade paper. “If you take a log cabin and replace it with a mansion, there are tax consequences to that.”
The tax pain isn’t limited to the initial renovation costs. Property taxes, insurance rates and utility bills all could rise too.
The producers of “Extreme Makeover” try to lower contestants’ tax bills by leasing their property during the two-week renovation and filming. Those renovations are then usually tax-exempt.
I admit it: I love Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It makes me cry like a pubescent girl. I’m glad they actually think about the consequences of the rennovation and try to alleviate them, but I always wonder how these (usually) poor families can afford the upkeep on their new homes.
Hezzy and I often joke that she owes it to me to become rich and famous. It would only be fair payback of the time I supported her while she went to grad school, etc., right?
Well, if you believe WIRED, she may be poised to become the next breadwinner in our household after all: Revenge of the Right Brain
To flourish in this age, we’ll need to supplement our well-developed high tech abilities with aptitudes that are “high concept” and “high touch.” High concept involves the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to come up with inventions the world didn’t know it was missing. High touch involves the capacity to empathize, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one’s self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning.
The article is adapted from A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age by Daniel Pink.
Sounds interesting to me. Now if only I could get back in touch with my artistic/poetic self, I might actually be in good shape… 
A dog’s breed is as bad as a bite for some insurers — This just pisses me off.
States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile
And that saves him almost $300 a month in gas. It’s great for Just but bad for the roads he’s driving on, because he also pays a lot less in gasoline taxes which fund highway projects and road repairs. As more and more hybrids hit the road, cash-strapped states are warning of rough roads ahead.
This stuff makes me batty.
Here in Colorado, we’ve had a drought going for the past several years. Of course, all the powers that be tell us we have to conserve water — even going so far as to start up police patrols to ticket people who water their lwans on the wrong days. Then what happens? Well, the water people lose revenue and have to raise water rates!
It’s like nobody is thinking about the consequences of conservation. I mean, really. Conservation means consuming less. That’s going to cost someone some money. The “powers that be” need to think about these things before it becomes an issue.
Reactionary Big Brother shenanigans are not a proper incentive for beneficial (and important) behavior changes.
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