Tractor lots are full

[TimberFarm]

We pay quarterly in advance, totals low six figures each year. It’s painful when half of all adults pay nothing. I’m providing a lot of folks free stuff and welfare

You are also providing a lot of other corporations the same.
Taxes are not just in the form of "Income".

 

[jyoutz]

Magnesium chloride is more corrosive to automobile bodies than rock salt is.

Your state is arid, with mild winters, very little snowfall, and low relative humidity. That’s why your cars don’t rust.
You use volcanic cinders because you have vast fields of lava fields. That’s not common other places.

Sand doesn’t readily spread at twenty below zero unless it’s mixed with salt.

Magnesium chloride brine is sprayed on the road before the snow even starts. It’s highly corrosive to cars and bridges. Cars are replaceable when they corrode, and deaths aren’t exactly inexpensive or desirable either.

Not all of my state has mild winters. The northern third is high elevation Rocky Mountains and high plains and can get deep blowing snow and black sheet ice on the roads. Not seeing the corrosion with the mag chloride. It is also used in neighboring Colorado and I have never seen a rusty newer vehicle there either.

 

[Torvy]

Magnesium chloride is more corrosive to automobile bodies than rock salt is.

Your state is arid, with mild winters, very little snowfall, and low relative humidity. That’s why your cars don’t rust.
You use volcanic cinders because you have vast fields of lava fields. That’s not common other places.

Sand doesn’t readily spread at twenty below zero unless it’s mixed with salt.

Magnesium chloride brine is sprayed on the road before the snow even starts. It’s highly corrosive to cars and bridges. Cars are replaceable when they corrode, and deaths aren’t exactly inexpensive or desirable either.

Ever been to Taos? How about Raton? NM gets serious snow in some places.

The salt that most of y'all use up north is not mined there either.

 

[finn1]

Ever been to Taos? How about Raton? NM gets serious snow in some places.

The salt that most of y'all use up north is not mined there either.

Yup. Been to both. Been stranded because the Ranton pass was closed. They get short spells of heavy snow, but it’s in general an arid climate compared to the Great Lakes and east coast, so there’s little corrosion on cars. I suspect the thin air at high altitudes arrests corrosion, too, since there’s reduced oxygen available. Never seen studies on that, though.

My son lives in Boulder. He laughs at their so called winter. It snows, but the sun comes out the next day annd the roads are clear and dry.

 

[tradosaurus]

Maybe if you had the proper withholding set up in the first place you wouldn’t have to write that check.

Cry me a River.

6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.
If everyone had to write a check maybe we could have another Boston Tea Party.
I write the check because I'm responsible to not spend the money I know the gov't is going to steal from me.

Cry me a river.
My ignore list is ever growing.

 

[rScotty]

6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.
If everyone had to write a check maybe we could have another Boston Tea Party.
I write the check because I'm responsible to not spend the money I know the gov't is going to steal from me.

Cry me a river.
My ignore list is ever growing.

Taxes don't bother me. They seem a fair price to pay for what we get.

Taken as a whole - and over the last few hundred years of history - governments seem to be getting better at doing their jobs. There is still a need for dissenters and watchdogs to keep them away from the excesses - so I figure that the complainers are doing their part too.

Of course nobody approves of all the govt actions. The government is just people and they do tend to go way overboard on stupid things. But overall the world is making progress. I like that things are getting better & don't mind paying my share.

rScotty

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Its a good thing national debt isn't sky rocketing, or Id think they couldn't budget.

 

[Williy]

Are the tractor prices coming down???
I see you can purchase a new pickup
for $149 month maybe 50 years to pay
it off????

willy

 

[jyoutz]

Its a good thing national debt isn't sky rocketing, or Id think they couldn't budget.

It is seldom when Congress actually passes a budget instead of a continuing resolution.

 

[tacticalturnip]

It is seldom when Congress actually passes a budget instead of a continuing resolution.

Seldom is a word that really oversells it.

 

[ddbackhoe]

Taxes don't bother me. They seem a fair price to pay for what we get..
rScotty

Thats a bandwagon I just cant jump on. All of the giveaways just kinda irk me. A few billion here and a few million there kinda add up to more than chump change. Maybe if some of the more domestic issues were completely in control, I’d be happy to play that second fiddle.

 

[rScotty]

Thats a bandwagon I just cant jump on. All of the giveaways just kinda irk me. A few billion here and a few million there kinda add up to more than chump change. Maybe if some of the more domestic issues were completely in control, I’d be happy to play that second fiddle.

I can understand that. The giveaways seem unfair to me too... it's a lot like paying people to continue being deadbeats. The unfairness of the whole giveaway circus is as annoying as the wasted money.

So even though I think we are basically getting our money's worth with taxes. On that giveaway thing I'm with you and feel it too.

But realistically there have always been "life wasters" - poor & rich ones too. As long as the numbers stay small, I'd rather focus on encouraging the positive things the rest of us are doing. That way I'm the one running my life.

enjoy,
rScotty

 

[Peter 315]

I went by the JD dealer today and the lot was full. Tractors , Excavators , Zero turn mowers and Lawn tractors..

 

[jyoutz]

I can understand that. The giveaways seem unfair to me too... it's a lot like paying people to continue being deadbeats. The unfairness of the whole giveaway circus is as annoying as the wasted money.

So even though I think we are basically getting our money's worth with taxes. On that giveaway thing I'm with you and feel it too.

But realistically there have always been "life wasters" - poor & rich ones too. As long as the numbers stay small, I'd rather focus on encouraging the positive things the rest of us are doing. That way I'm the one running my life.

enjoy,
rScotty

I agree and in an elected representative system there will always be things that some constituents want and those same things are considered waste by others. One thing is sure: both the poor and the rich are giveaway recipients. The middle class seems to be on the short end.

 

[rScotty]

I agree and in an elected representative system there will always be things that some constituents want and those same things are considered waste by others. One thing is sure: both the poor and the rich are giveaway recipients. The middle class seems to be on the short end.

You bet we are. From here in the middle it's a short reach to snag the best from the rich side and the poor side both.

Here in the middle we've figured out how to balance a little bit of money with having enough free time to enjoy it.

No wonder all the giveaway recipients are constantly busy trying to pick our pockets.
Sometimes I wonder how we got so lucky.

rScotty

 

[tradosaurus]

I went by the JD dealer today and the lot was full. Tractors , Excavators , Zero turn mowers and Lawn tractors..

Kubota dealer in Texarkana, Tx was completely full. Never seen it that full in a long long time.

 

[groundcover]

Are the tractor prices coming down???
I see you can purchase a new pickup
for $149 month maybe 50 years to pay
it off????

willy

Yes but how much down !??

 

[ddbackhoe]

I can understand that. The giveaways seem unfair to me too... it's a lot like paying people to continue being deadbeats. The unfairness of the whole giveaway circus is as annoying as the wasted money.

So even though I think we are basically getting our money's worth with taxes. On that giveaway thing I'm with you and feel it too.

But realistically there have always been "life wasters" - poor & rich ones too. As long as the numbers stay small, I'd rather focus on encouraging the positive things the rest of us are doing. That way I'm the one running my life.

enjoy,
rScotty

I guess then I should be happy that you and some others think trillions is a small number. Little wonder the thousands it cost me for a little estate planning to try and protect something for my grandkids future.

My thoughts are on the global giveaways, not just those at home. If we used the money they hand out across the globe, I doubt anyone here would go to sleep at night hungry, not get care for their wounds, nor miss their meds.

I spent 23years of my younger life believing that our government knew what they were doing. Missed birthdays, anniversaries, graduations.
Got to see quite a few of the places no one would pick for a vacation. My optimism was broken, the reality is when do the wheels call their stockbroker, before or after they vote?

 

[rScotty]

I guess then I should be happy that you and some others think trillions is a small number. Little wonder the thousands it cost me for a little estate planning to try and protect something for my grandkids future.

If it is trillions that make you happy that is fine by me. I figure things differently - but whatever makes you happy. I wish you the best, & hope you are successful with all that planning to make the future better.

 

[tacticalturnip]

If it is trillions that make you happy that is fine by me. I figure things differently - but whatever makes you happy. I wish you the best, & hope you are successful with all that planning to make the future better.

I think he is concerned about the trillions the government is spending, not that he has trillions, or that any of this makes him happy.