Have you written your congressman & senator today?

I emailed Bill Johnson and Sherrod Brown today to ask them to look at this site and study the dilemma of landowners and farmers.  I will do so once a week until I get a response, (hope my fingers don't wear out from typing).  Just short informative stuff with no crazy talk.  Do your part to help the cause!  Thanks all.

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Permalink Reply by John OBrien, landowner advocate on March 26, 2013 at 9:04am

Billy,

Jack Cera representative for Ohio district  96 got an email from me this morning.  It will not be the last one either.   I am not worried as much about a 3.8% tax on my royalties as I am about not getting any royalties in the first place.  Seems like the large corporations have so many loopholes in the tax code that they won't be paying any additional taxes.  Without any tax money in the State coffers there will be no grant money for small poor communities.  In Monroe county  we as tax payers voted in a levy in 2009 to build badly needed new schools.  Now that we have lost Federal  funding (due to the woes of the two party system and wasteful spending) our school system is probably facing closing of brand new schools.   We know we will be taxed as individual landowners.  All we can hope for is that all that tax money won't be completely wasted.  It seems like everyone loves America, and immigrants are digging under the fence to get in, but some of us who live here don't  want to do anything but complain about being taxed. 

Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on March 26, 2013 at 9:46am

Hold on one dad burn minute! There is nothing wrong with a locality upgrading its self to a living standard that has been neglected for well over 100 years! Nothing wrong for the first time ever that a landowner could afford to pay for their child's college with the fruit of what they have worked for.

  I am currently working on a frac crew in WV and personally see where our work is being rewarded by seeing new homes where you can tell old ones used to be by the condition of the barns. We see homes that would be condemned in cities in this area that now see  a chance to improve. We can feel the opportunity of a family for the first time in the family history to pay for and place their children into college.

  In Ohio they want to spread the wealth from stealing from the once poor. No way, let the Appalachia Poor use the money locally to benefit themselves not a community of illegal immigrants that pay no taxes upon their business in Toledo! 

  I am not a fan of big government that runs a muck. where the Palestinians get $500,000,000 while federal workers get laid off! Nor am I impressed with free housing for illegal immigrants like Obama's favorite aunt while our own people are neglected.

Permalink Reply by John OBrien, landowner advocate on March 27, 2013 at 8:34am

Billy,

Agreed. (to 99.9% of your statements above)

I know nothing about anyone's favorite Aunt, so can't agree to what I don't know.

Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on March 26, 2013 at 11:59pm

John how about adding up all the tax upon that royalty. Federal income tax at ?? %, Add the State Income tax ??%, Add in possibly City locality income tax, add in Property tax and revised values upon the property add in the little 3.5% and what is the total tax?  Anyone have an idea? 

Permalink Reply by John OBrien, landowner advocate on March 27, 2013 at 8:56am

Billy, 

Gotta admit I don't know.  I need to know before I receive any $$, and since I consider myself "un-leased" from Beck Energy (still waiting on appeal in Ohio 7th district Court of Appeals) and if Beck loses this appeal as most people seem to think he will, I will have to make the big decision on who to sign with.  It all seems like it is a long way off right now, but my plan is to stick together if I find a good trustworthy group.  Sounds like we are headed towards one here.

Permalink Reply by Hunter 1 on March 26, 2013 at 4:58pm
I completely agree why should us eastern ohio landowners pay for projects in Columbus when for so long they could care less about us when we were struggling and they were in good shape, this proposed severence tax on landowners is socialism in its purest form
Permalink Reply by Robin Hood on March 26, 2013 at 5:44pm

I've been working here in China for the last two weeks. I have two observations:

God blessed Americans. They can own land and mineral rights. Here they can do neither.

We need the Environmental Protection Agency. The pollution over here is apocalyptic.

It nice we can rant.. I'm right there with you, but when its all said and done regardless of the outcome we are still lucky to be born where we were born. 

Permalink Reply by mark ayers on March 26, 2013 at 7:15pm

"We need the Environmental Protection Agency. The pollution over here is apocalyptic."

Robin Hood, when you have time could you tell us what you are seeing over there, it would be interesting to have a eyewitness account from one of us. 

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