{"id":1250,"date":"2009-02-21T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/21\/death-tax\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T19:16:09","slug":"death-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/death-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/estate-taxes.pdf\" title=\"Colorado Ranchers Pray for Death of \u2018Death Tax\u2019\">Colorado Ranchers Pray for Death of \u2018Death Tax\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Farmers also can use conservation easements. They donate land to a qualifying tax-exempt or governmental organization and agree to keep it as open space or use it for agriculture, said Durst.<\/p>\n<p>Adding up all exemptions, Durst projects that less than 1 percent of farms will be subject to the estate tax in 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how\u00a0 Ron Durst, senior economist for the Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, and the Associated Press consider donating your land to the government to be a tax exemption.\u00a0 Let me get this straight, <strong>if the government takes a portion of your wealth, that&#8217;s taxation, but if you give the government all of your wealth, then it&#8217;s a tax exemption.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I guess so, but only because you&#8217;ll have nothing left to tax. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Ranchers Pray for Death of \u2018Death Tax\u2019 Farmers also can use conservation easements. They donate land to a qualifying tax-exempt or governmental organization and agree to keep it as open space or use it for agriculture, said Durst. Adding up all exemptions, Durst projects that less than 1 percent of farms will be subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economics","7":"category-morality","8":"category-politics","9":"category-totalitarianism","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}