<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> if owning property makes one smart, then owning more property makes one more smart. Are you ready to go there?<font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> Sure I'll go there. It isn't all IQ, as we both know. But amassing millions, or tens of millions. or billions of dollars in property, stocks, etc. takes some smarts. Positive correlation. Holding on to it if you inherited it ditto. Now if you believe that if you buy more property it will make you smarter, then I have some land very near the coast in Florida you might like.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">bill w</p></b></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 1:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-5148025439775281197WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Owning property doesn’t make one smart. spike</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Sure, some of them are as dumb as lint, but to own and keep owning it shows signs of intelligence - not a lot, I"ll admit</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(34,34,34)">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">My WV property has no limit on the number of co-owners. The state doesn’t care, so long as it gets its property tax. We (the owners (all cousins at this point)) specifically asked if it was OK to bring on more co-owners: that was the answer. Pay the taxes and you can have as many co-owners as you want. They won’t send them all tax bills but they can still be listed as co-owners, so long as the WV government ends up with the tax money. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">WV is happy to collect tax revenue on property that is completely useless because it has no road to it. If anyone ever does build a road, then WV is free to assess the value of that property at whatever they want (in which case we stop paying the taxes (and the state owns it (they realize no one will do that (the land is too rugged back there (but if someone did build a road the property does become valuable (and the state would want it.)))))<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">The family wants that property too. My great great grandfather had a homestead back there, my great grandfather and my grandmother were born there. We want to keep that. We could create co-owners in arbitrary numbers (for a profit) giving the new co-owners the right to vote and a credential on their intelligence at the same time.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">But keep in mind: if owning property makes one smart, then owning more property makes one more smart. Are you ready to go there?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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