what's wrong w/ the country right now?

[420seriouscat69]

That and taxes. You guys are like taking home 5% of your paychecks these days.

[star seed 7]

Taxes are super low, should be higher

[420seriouscat69]

Trump's plan was to drop them down from 25% to 15%, but I bet it never happens.

[OK_Cat]

There is literally no aspect of life from 20 years ago that is better than what we have in 2016. We are blessed, friends.


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one thing that is absolutely worse is the cost of skiing. I remember when you could stop at a dillons in Denver and get $35 tickets to breck. 

Well crap, we really do need to make America great again


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[star seed 7]

Remember non-hd TV? 

[CNS]

Def don't want higher taxes.  Between taxes and Soc Sec, I am paying about three F35's a year as it is.

[420seriouscat69]

Def don't want higher taxes.  Between taxes and Soc Sec, I am paying about three F35's a year as it is.

Yup. Apparently Lib loves giving away his $ tho.  I feel like it's safer and will go further in my hands. 

[chum1]

From 2013:

Last year, 54 percent of skier visits, defined as one skier or snowboarder riding for one day, came from households earning more than $100,000, according to the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA). That's up from 48 percent five years ago, a 12.5 percent increase.

In contrast, visits from households earning less than $100,000 during the same period slipped from 52 percent to 46 percent — an 11.5 percent decrease.
...
The average weekend lift-ticket price last season was $85.52, which was actually a bargain compared to the $129 you’d have paid if you walked up to a ticket window at Vail or Beaver Creek last Christmas. This year, Deer Valley, Jackson Hole, Park City and Sun Valley have all joined Aspen and Vail in charging $100 or more for a lift ticket during peak periods.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/high-peaks-lofty-prices-skiing-increasingly-pricing-out-middle-class-f2D11619010

[star seed 7]

I have no problem paying taxes, it's what civilized society does

[420seriouscat69]

That's great, lib, we all pay taxes. But there's a lot of $ we're missing out on of our paychecks. Especially social security, which we'll never see.

[star seed 7]

So?

[chum1]

2015:

Nobody ever accused Vail of being a cheap mountain. But the latest price bump — $160 for a single-day adult holiday ticket — is getting chowder lovers to sit up and take notice.
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Breckenridge, also owned by Vail Resorts, raised ticket prices from $140 to $145. Deer Valley, Utah, went from $114 to $120. Park City, Utah, raised prices to $115, and Whistler/Blackcomb, in British Columbia, upped its rate to $119 (Canadian).

According to the Aspen Daily News, single-day tickets at resorts owned by SkiCo (which manages Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands, Snowmass and Buttermilk) have gone up 65% since 2005.

https://gearjunkie.com/vail-lift-tickets-price-increase

[420seriouscat69]

I'm not going down this rabbit hole with you. If you hate $, then cool, I don't. I pay $700 a month on student loans and my wife is unemployed, i'd like to have more of it.

[steve dave]

Is it still super pud easy to use your CO buds annual lift ticket at all the mountains or have they made that harder? I haven't been in over a trillion years.

[Skipper44]

just looked, its like $250 bucks for one day of ski school at Breck  it does include lunch and the lift ticket but not the skis/boots

[Kat Kid]

I'm not going down this rabbit hole with you. If you hate $, then cool, I don't. I pay $700 a month on student loans and my wife is unemployed, i'd like to have more of it.

pull yourself up by your bootstraps and stop begging for a government handout.

[Dugout DickStone]

I'm not going down this rabbit hole with you. If you hate $, then cool, I don't. I pay $700 a month on student loans and my wife is unemployed, i'd like to have more of it.

I hope she isn't collecting gov handouts

[star seed 7]

I've never been skiing, but would like to go. Do you have to buy all the "gear" or can you just rent that crap at a mountain?

[Rage Against the McKee]

When were taxes lower than they are now?

[420seriouscat69]

When were taxes lower than they are now?

They weren't.

[steve dave]

I've never been skiing, but would like to go. Do you have to buy all the "gear" or can you just rent that crap at a mountain?

you can rent at the mountain or in denver or like on every single street corner

[chum1]

Is it still super pud easy to use your CO buds annual lift ticket at all the mountains or have they made that harder? I haven't been in over a trillion years.

I don't know, but photo IDing people when they're all bundled up would be tough. I imagine more and more people will start sharing passes. Then, costs will continue to rise to compensate. And, someday, a million people will share a season pass that costs a billion dollars.

[steve dave]

Is it still super pud easy to use your CO buds annual lift ticket at all the mountains or have they made that harder? I haven't been in over a trillion years.

I don't know, but photo IDing people when they're all bundled up would be tough. I imagine more and more people will start sharing passes. Then, costs will continue to rise to compensate. And, someday, a million people will share a season pass that costs a billion dollars.

we used to use our buds summit county annual passes all the time. it had this really terrible photo of them on it but it was so crappy my wife could have used it.

[420seriouscat69]

When were taxes lower than they are now?

Obama raised them 10% http://federal-tax-rates.insidegov.com/

[chum1]

I'm surprised that I hadn't noticed such an increase.