What the wealth gap and tax cuts are giving us - Mansions with secret rooms and elevators for cars

[ck4829]

OK, it's not giving US these things. But if you've ever wondered where the money from the tax cuts go, here's an idea...

"$10 million cliffside dwelling at Point Place in Laguna Beach, Calif., would make Bruce Wayne proud. The driveway has a secret, subterranean entrance below the house's steep perch, inside the cliff itself. Once a car passes through the hidden garage door, a commercial-grade hydraulic lift transports it up and into the house.

Las Vegas' $10 million Wood Creek Court residence stands out. It has a full-on water park with sandy beach island, a sunken swim-up bar--even a lazy river. The owners of the $7.4 million French Bastide in Greenwich, Conn., converted an English phone booth into a poolside outdoor shower. Recently Sotheby's International Realty sold a Beverly Hills home, complete with a giant bird-shaped swimming pool, for $4.2 million. As if a winged body of water wasn't enough of a talking point at house parties, the owners also dug out an underwater observation room.

Other homes have indoor water works. The $3.4 million Midwest Club estate in Oak Brook, Ill., is on the market for $3.4 million, thanks in part to waterfront views and seven bedroom suites with private living areas and a foliage-lined indoor koi stream. The koi stream warps around a little island holding a ficus tree, while the stream's banks nourish dozens of plants. If you want to access the far side of the room, a stone-tiled bridge will take you there.

Hall Willkie is president of Brown Harris Stevens, a New York-based real estate firm that represents a $35 million Manhattan townhouse boasting a two-story indoor wall of water. Willkie says both the pool of potential buyers and the selection of homes with opulent amenities are small."

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/homes-with-the-most-outrageous-amenities.html

Thank you, Republicans.
Thank you, Tea Party.
Thank you, media for saying that these cuts would create jobs.
Thank you, any Democrats who capitulated.
:sarcasm:

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/homes-with-the-most-outrageous-amenities.html

[WhiteTara]

1. they created jobs! Someone had to build

those little chotskies like an elevator to take the car into the house. :sarcasm:

[ChazII]

2. Sarcasm appreciated. n/t

[lunatica]

3. And don't forget they need to be manned and maintained

there's plenty of jobs catering to the obscenely wealthy.

[WhiteTara]

7. Point Reyes CA is such a place

the obscenely wealthy and the people who serve them who live in old converted chicken coops, etc (paying obscene rents.) But they all the same view and it is incredible.

[janet118]

4. What? No moat?

We don't need education. We need to train our children on how to kiss up to the wealthy oligarchs.

[Ezlivin]

5. Trickle down, baby!

Can't you feel that warm stream coursing down your poor body?

[Heywood J]

6. I dunno, I do like the idea of the last one.

I'm partial to the Bridge Over The River Koi...