[quote="farmerc83"][quote="Skip OK"]When I have heard about the Fair Tax previously it was to replace the current income tax system; not to cover Income tax, Social Security tax, estate tax or any excise taxes. If this is not true, then the "5% of the taxpayers pay 95% of the taxes" statement is ...

When I have heard about the Fair Tax previously it was to replace the current income tax system; not to cover Income tax, Social Security tax, estate tax or any excise taxes. If this is not true, then the "5% of the taxpayers pay 95% of the taxes" statement is obviously untrue, since Social Security ...

duckaholic,

DU qualifies as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit charitable or environmental organization. So does Delta waterfowl, and NWTF, and all the other various wildlife groups where you contributions are tax deductible.

All,

For this contest DU is "competing" against the Audobon (sp?) Society, the ...

KC,

I have been a Petroleum Engineer for more than 30 years, and let me tell you, your father's estimate is actually quite conservative. Fact is, on a purely technical, front we will NEVER run out of oil.

What WILL happen is that the oil that is left will cost so much to extract that no one will ...

Pacific Flyway (more so than Central/Mississippi) has a different population of birds plus a different population of bird hunters.
Pacific = Lots of birds, few hunters. Central = moderate birds, moderate hunters. Mississippi = lots of birds, lots of hunters, and Atlantic = few birds, lots of ...

Did you ever get a reply about this from Delta?

From the first post what I got was:

1. from DU-- This isn't our project; here is the guy you need to talk to.

2. from DW-- I will talk to one of our biologists and get back to you.

Of those two responses, the first one at least had SOME beneficial ...

Don't need two of these.

There are two separate issues here; (1) trademark infringement & (2) illegal political activity by a 501(c)(3). Either one of these are taken VERY seriously by DU.

We got a BIG e-mail here in Oklahoma concerning the implications of appearing to support the LOCAL candidates, some of whom are on our ...

I hate to burst any bubbles here, but if the Bakken is the biggest find since Prudhoe Bay, apparently Prudhoe Bay was bigger, right?

If the bigger discovery, which was made at a time when our demand was far less than it is now, was unable to end our dependence on imported oil, odds are this one ...

It's a case of hunter populations compared to bird populations. Here is an explanation made long ago that covers it:

1. Atlantic Flyway -- many hunters/few birds ---> short season

2. Pacific Flyway --- few hunters/many birds ----> long season

3. Mississippi Flyway --- many hunters/many birds ...

There is a newer (1980s) edition of that book that has a different title, but I don't recall what it is off hand.

I don't know if you like "tips & tricks" type of books (I like them far less than I used to), but most of the "tips & tricks" I have tried out of this book have worked.

It IS dated; I ...

[quote="Jeff"]Skip, that is very good points. I have heard information to this over the years, however I have never read anything to support it. Have you read anything along these lines? Of course it won't change the outcome of the seasons, but it would help me.

I come from an area where if you ...

This is actually an argument FOR AHM, not against it.

There has been lots of complaints about using "mallard only" numbers to set frameworks as long as I can remember (1960s & 1970s). AHM still uses just the mallard numbers to set frameworks, although other species with special problems (scaup ...

Jacksbuddy,

The reason is simple. It's the same reason we consider ethanol at all. It's the same reason we sweeten our pop with corn instead of sugar.

The corn growers have vast influence with Congress. This isn't "farmers" having influence; it's CORN farmers.

If they had made ethanol a "revenue ...

The same reason a microwave oven is priced $99.99. Or why the Dow Jones Averages get stuck at just under some "threshold" like 14,999, and then shoot way high after it breaks 15,000.

People tend to see the difference between, say $3.199 and $3.20 to be much higher than between $3.198 and $3.199.