They auctioned off the right to push the plunger to demolish the casino.
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Weisselberg will testify that the intent of the charitable donation deduction is to reduce your taxes enough to recoup the actual value of the property, so you have to divide its market value by your marginal tax rate.
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Trump considered putting up a wind farm on the property, but he couldn’t find anyone to run the dead bald eagle removal crew.
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It should be used to house the homeless.
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A modest suggestion:
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Or refugees. Decent, humane housing for them.
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Man, that’s just of a piece with the vodka and steaks. He just can’t stop doing this penny-ante stuff that real billionaires rarely seem to find it necessary or desirable to do. You know the traditional belief that if you throw a handful of rice or wheat on the ground, a vampire will have to stop to count each grain? He would be like that with nickels. If he were chasing you, you could throw a handful of nickels on the ground and he’d stop and pick up every last one.
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Build a prison on the site. The first inmate gets naming rights. Hopefully, no name change would be necessary.
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In my youth, ‘pennybender’ was a term of disparagement.
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At the rate things are going, his headstone will read [Individual-1].
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I remember the same thing. Funny, it was all about conventional respectability, even when we were just kids. It was considered disgraceful to pick up a penny. And “trashpicker” was a big insult too. Not much sympathy for the poor in any of that.
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Actually, the mayor of Atlantic City engineered the auction to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs. TFG didn’t benefit financially from that.
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OK, that’s cool. But Don. Jr. charges $500 for a personalized birthday greeting and isn’t that special.
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‘Your mother wears army boots’ used to be an insult too.
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OT question other than that it also has to do with nature, but after reading about the ongoing and worsening drought out west, it seems to me that unless this turns around soon there are really only three ways to deal with this. Either encourage a lot of people to move back east and those who stay to use less water, find ways to drastically be more efficient in water usage, especially in agriculture and industry, or find ways of bringing water to these places. I’ve had an idea for how to do that and was wondering how feasible it is given how how the other two solutions would be to implement.
The idea is to harness the massive amounts of sunlight that fall on these regions (along with wind) to produce a surplus of power, that would not only be used to power homes, offices, stores and factories and recharge EVs, but also be used to pump vast amounts of water out of the Pacific, desalinate it, and pump it east to all these places, where some of it will be used right away and the rest stored in a vast network of reservoirs on high ground, to be tapped during periods of high demand, with the added benefit of then being converted to electricity as it flows down to where it’s needed, in a vast network of pumped hydro “batteries”, thus solving both the water and power needs of the west and conserving as much of both as possible.
Has this ever been tried on a smaller scale, say in the mideast, which faces similar problems?
Never mind:
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My wife picks up change on the ground by pure force of habit. Her parent’s were depression era, had a hard early life. They were frugal to a fault because it is how they survived. Financially they were not comfortable until the 60s, meaning my wife also grew without a lot of disposable income in the family as well. I do not think of it as disgraceful.
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Stopping from picking up pennies ( in my 40s) was when I realized I finally had a paycheck I could live on.
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I’ve probably picked up $50-$60 in dropped bills and coins over the past 10 or so years. No shame there.
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I didn’t say it was disgraceful in itself. I was just struck at how these young boys, none especially rich themselves, looked down on people less fortunate.
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My mother wears Doc Martens and kicks ass.
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