Year round activities... A Destination Vacation place. Come to Idaho and leave the rat race behind.
People will see through the "company store". Nah, they'll buy up the local stores quietly, through shell companies and brokers, and run them with subcontractors to keep the illusion it's not owned by them. Those employees are going to be spending their money regardless, either on food, entertainment, or some other needs. Identify those needs, identify the stores, buy those stores. We're at peak capitalism right now. Capitalism is good, but we're at the point where it has some negative side effects.After living in the company house, the next step is to shop at the company store. Not much $$$ left at the end of the week.
Construction starts for Schweitzer's new employee housing project in Ponderay
Originally announced in May, construction has now officially kicked off for a new 84 unit employee housing development for the employees of...www.inlandnwbusiness.com
Starting to sound like the Cartels in Mexico and South America. And of course, those Cartels run one of the best, most secure wireless communications network in the world. Capitalism while supplying the demand.
I agree. As long as all compensation is reported to the IRS, there is no violation of the rules. It can be so simple as giving an employee a debit card and the enployer loading his weekly wages on the card. Auto pay for the housing / rent, use the card at the company store or get cash out of an ATM machine... No different than a government employee having direct deposit for his paycheck. It's all tracked.
Some ski resorts already do this.After living in the company house, the next step is to shop at the company store. Not much $$$ left at the end of the week.
Construction starts for Schweitzer's new employee housing project in Ponderay
Originally announced in May, construction has now officially kicked off for a new 84 unit employee housing development for the employees of...
I have seen this and talked with year round employees at Banff, Canada..... That is the local culture if you want to reside there year round. Similar to American's working at a crappy job in order to have medical insurance. The new norm.
www.banfflakelouise.com 
www.zillow.com Why did you leave ?You guys are hysterical. I mean, I get where you are going with this and I get why, but you’re missing the real “WHY” this project is happening in the first place. I moved to Coeur d’Alene, ID in 1997. I bought 10 acres bordering millions of acres of public land. I designed a house on engineering paper, met with an architect , had plans drawn up and had the house built. It was technically in Harrison, ID on the east side of the lake. I had $270,000 in the entire project and lived there until 2004. For grins, here’s a link to what Zillow thinks it’s worth now; enjoy the beautiful pictures and view, they make me really badly miss that place! Oh, and they have it valued over $ 1,000,000 now.
10276 S Caribou Ridge Rd, Harrison, ID 83833 | Zillow
10276 S Caribou Ridge Rd, Harrison ID, is a Single Family home that contains 3102 sq ft and was built in 1997.It contains 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. The Zestimate for this Single Family is $1,716,700, which has decreased by $1,413 in the last 30 days.The Rent Zestimate for this Single Family...
Thank you Komyfornians with loads of cash! Same thing has happened in Sandpoint, which is the town below Schweitzer. Plane and simple. Schweitzer needs employees and it’s too darn expensive for people to live there on what they can make working on the mountain. If Schweitzer pays them enough so the can afford to live there, your lift ticket would cost $300 per day or more which would kill business. This is their solution. Hopefully it does not go the way of coal mines and company stores in the past. If I remember correctly, there is already a shopping area in Pondery near to where they are building those apartments. I’m sure more will build up after they complete these, but the shopping mentioned in the article likely already exists.
Understood.... Been there, done that, got the T shirt and wore it out..... Kept the T shirt as a reminder.
You don't HAVE to be paid in cash. You can be paid in stock, cryptocurrency, tangible goods, services and anything in between. Regardless of how you're paid, anything received must be reported as taxable income at its fair market value when received.
Damn.... Somebody must have died.
There are a handful of states that require employees be paid U.S currency. This is because of the Coal Wars, and companies paying in company dollars.
What states? To my knowledge, company scrip is as nixed as a result of the FLSA in the 30’s as a result of coal and logging company abuse, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
