Will the economy crash when government checks run out?

[PegLeg45]

Just rent the whole place out as vacation property.

[Pathfinder]

HEY NOW!!!

You are talking about one of the few SOLVENT states. And that's even after paying for YOUR wolves. Not to mention that we do it without a state income tax. 

I had a conversation with our Governor a few weeks ago. (Yes we are small enough that he knows me by name.) I suggested that we buy California. We certainly have the funds to bail them out. However, their legislature would be void, and they would live under our laws. You think we could turn a profit? Not to mention making California irrelevant come election time.   

BAD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Witht hte beautiful ocean-front properties come all of The Entitled Ones, and there just ain't enough of the true Wyoming-ites to counterbalance their votes. They would turn you into kalfornistan East in no time at all. You've already seen what happens when the Greenies (Coloradans) move in. This would be 1000 times worse!

Case in point - the guy who owned the cattle ranch I worked on came from kalifornia, bought 20,000+ Wyoming acres for less than a million bucks. When he couldn't turn around and resell it privately for an 800% profit, he sold it to the National Guard. So now, no cows, no nobody on 20,000+ beautiful acres of Wyoming cattle land north of Wheatland. No thought to the locals, just ME ME ME!!! 

[JC5123]

BAD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Witht hte beautiful ocean-front properties come all of The Entitled Ones, and there just ain't enough of the true Wyoming-ites to counterbalance their votes. They would turn you into kalfornistan East in no time at all. You've already seen what happens when the Greenies (Coloradans) move in. This would be 1000 times worse!

Case in point - the guy who owned the cattle ranch I worked on came from kalifornia, bought 20,000+ Wyoming acres for less than a million bucks. When he couldn't turn around and resell it privately for an 800% profit, he sold it to the National Guard. So now, no cows, no nobody on 20,000+ beautiful acres of Wyoming cattle land north of Wheatland. No thought to the locals, just ME ME ME!!! 

And you nailed it there. If you look at the big ranches that are going in for about the past decade, more than half of them are coming in from California. They buy up huge family run ranches, for pennies on the dollar, because the feds seem to think they are entitled to half of everything you have already paid taxes on when you die. Because most ranches values are tied up in the actual property, the remaining family members are forced to sell chunks of land to cover the death taxes.

If these snakes were paying what these properties were actually worth, 20,000 acres would cost more in the range of 18-20 million dollars. (I take the figure of $1000 per acre, because I am currently looking at some land that borders a large ranch, and that is the average price per acre in our current market.)