re: #107 Lincolntf

Ughhhh, I just got off the phone with a friend up in MA. His family business (a landscaping/nursery operation) has been in business since around WWII. By far the most popular/successful company of it’s type in the area. Anyway, the patriarch of the family passed away not too long ago and the family was dead set on keeping it running. They just announced that they are closing down for good.
The reason? The estate taxes levied on my friend’s dead grandfather (who started the company and kept it in business throughout the intervening 60 years) made it impossible for them to stay solvent. Some days I really hate the Government.

Sorry for the OT, but I had to vent a bit.

re: #107 Lincolntf

Ughhhh, I just got off the phone with a friend up in MA. His family business (a landscaping/nursery operation) has been in business since around WWII. By far the most popular/successful company of it’s type in the area. Anyway, the patriarch of the family passed away not too long ago and the family was dead set on keeping it running. They just announced that they are closing down for good.
The reason? The estate taxes levied on my friend’s dead grandfather (who started the company and kept it in business throughout the intervening 60 years) made it impossible for them to stay solvent. Some days I really hate the Government.

Sorry for the OT, but I had to vent a bit.

That would be Shrewsbury Nursery you are talking about. Another success story down the drain in our coward new world.