{"id":599,"date":"2006-06-04T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T20:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/04\/conservation_ea\/"},"modified":"2006-06-04T16:36:45","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T20:36:45","slug":"conservation_ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/04\/conservation_ea\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Easements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While at the G.A. this year, I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?061+sum+HB449 \">this bill<\/a> come through and thought it might be an example of Republican lawmakers doing good.  Patrons:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 R. Lee Ware, Jr. (chief patron) <br \/>\n\u2022 David B. Albo <br \/>\n\u2022 Clifford L. Athey, Jr. <br \/>\n\u2022 Vincent F. Callahan, Jr. <br \/>\n\u2022 John A. Cosgrove <br \/>\n\u2022 William H. Fralin, Jr. <br \/>\n\u2022 Thomas D. Gear <br \/>\n\u2022 C. Todd Gilbert <br \/>\n\u2022 S. Chris Jones <br \/>\n\u2022 Terry G. Kilgore <br \/>\n\u2022 R. Steven Landes <br \/>\n\u2022 Daniel W. Marshall, III <br \/>\n\u2022 Harvey B. Morgan <br \/>\n\u2022 David A. Nutter <br \/>\n\u2022 John M. O&#8217;Bannon, III <br \/>\n\u2022 Thomas Davis Rust <br \/>\n\u2022 Robert J. Wittman <br \/>\n\u2022 Thomas C. Wright, Jr. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently, Virginia is kind to folks who want to help conserve land and conserve their money, too.<br \/>\nThose tax benefits have fueled an explosion in easements, particularly in Virginia, which offers additional state tax credits. In 1995, Virginia landowners placed easements on fewer than 6,000 acres; last year, the figure exceeded 35,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the IRS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/03\/AR2006060300882.html\">has other ideas<\/a>.  Seems it just another ploy to give developers a way to rob the treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Democratic supervisor in Fairfax makes a fool of himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To support his argument that more homes could have been built on the property, [the developer] Turner introduced a letter signed by Fairfax County Supervisor Gerald W. Hyland (D-Mount Vernon) saying that Turner had the &#8220;right&#8221; to build 62 houses. But Hyland testified that Turner wrote the letter and that Hyland signed it without checking whether it was accurate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice move, Gerry.  I guess if business interests can write legisaltion, they surely can write letters for lawmakers signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at the G.A. this year, I saw this bill come through and thought it might be an example of Republican lawmakers doing good. Patrons: \u2022 R. Lee Ware, Jr. (chief patron) \u2022 David B. Albo \u2022 Clifford L. Athey, Jr. \u2022 Vincent F. Callahan, Jr. \u2022 John A. Cosgrove \u2022 William H. Fralin, Jr.&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/04\/conservation_ea\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}