Tractor lots are full

[2manyrocks]

Withholding isn't for the convenience of the taxpayer. Withholding was implemented so they collect their $ directly from the employer before the employee gets their hands on it so they don't end up trying to collect from millions of taxpayers at year end who already spent their money on other stuff.

 

[2manyrocks]

Amazes me that Milton Friedman explained economics so clearly and yet we have these tools that apparently believe there is some other alternate reality of economics that allows them to engage in irresponsible behavior that is never going to end well and yet they have to try it anyway.

 

[TimberFarm]

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.

I try to hammer this into my stepson's head. He has an hourly wage job, nothing big. He always complains he doesn't have enough money when he gets his check every week.
Come tax time though, he ends up with over $8000 refund every year.
I keep telling him to change your withholding. You would have an extra $150 week to live on NOW.

 

[TimberFarm]

My local Kubota dealer that I commented on a couple months ago how packed they were, now is even more packed with implements, tractors of all sizes, and even excavator on their lot. I have never seen an excavator there.
Local JD dealer, same thing.

 

[Yander]

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.

Maybe he's a business owner.

 

[tacticalturnip]

It wasn't the bailouts that caused inflation. It was caused by the new world order planned by the heads of state--No oil, no diesel, no gas and no food. If you want it, then you have to pay for it. Their plan is working.

One could argue the bailouts are part of all that.

 

[Tinhack]

One could argue the bailouts are part of all that.

See post #79.

 

[Hay Dude]

G______t has no place in bailouts, social programs, social agendas, or “green energy” subsidies. I could see a few small exceptions like social security (but it would be run like an IRA) and some kind of life-saving emergency medical care. Other than that, national defense and basic infrastructure management.
Large, centralized G______t which is now what we have, has FAR outstripped its original intention. It has to be reigned in, reduced by 50% and re-imagined, before it bankrupts this country into oblivion.
The GM bailout was a huge mistake and set a precedent for future bailouts and boondoggles, like Solyndra.
GM should have been left alone to succeed, fail, or be bought out by a competitor.

 

[5030]

G______t has no place in bailouts, social programs, social agendas, or “green energy” subsidies. I could see a few small exceptions like social security (but it would be run like an IRA) and some kind of life-saving emergency medical care. Other than that, national defense and basic infrastructure management.
Large, centralized G______t which is now what we have, has FAR outstripped its original intention. It has to be reigned in, reduced by 50% and re-imagined, before it bankrupts this country into oblivion.
The GM bailout was a huge mistake and set a precedent for future bailouts and boondoggles, like Solyndra.
GM should have been left alone to succeed, fail, or be bought out by a competitor.

That could very well happen in the near future with GM planning on going 100% EV in the near future and over 50% of the population wanting nothing to do with EV's at all. Candidly, I don't believe any of the not so big 3 are using their heads with EV's anyway. Fords is playing that game as well, but not to the extent that GM is.

 

[rScotty]

That could very well happen in the near future with GM planning on going 100% EV in the near future and over 50% of the population wanting nothing to do with EV's at all. Candidly, I don't believe any of the not so big 3 are using their heads with EV's anyway. Fords is playing that game as well, but not to the extent that GM is.Ford

Listenup Ford and GM: How about an inflation busting car/PU?

Instead of an EV that accelerates like a rocket, goes 100+mph, and has a limited range & lifespan.

Why not make an interesting inflationmobile? A lightweight car/PU with a small extremely efficient gas or diesel engine that had modest accelration...or downright slow, lasted well, & cruised inexpensively.

It's fun to go fast, but right now I'd rather go slow with money in my pocket than not at all.

rScotty

 

[2manyrocks]

Chrysler was bailed out in 1979 and again in connection with the 2008 melt down. I'm not sure if the Chrysler bailout in 1979 was the first one, but that is the first one I remember, and it was controversial at the time.

 

[Hay Dude]

Listenup Ford and GM: How about an inflation busting car/PU?

Instead of an EV that accelerates like a rocket, goes 100+mph, and has a limited range & lifespan.

Why not make an interesting inflationmobile? A lightweight car/PU with a small extremely efficient gas or diesel engine that had modest accelration...or downright slow, lasted well, & cruised inexpensively.

It's fun to go fast, but right now I'd rather go slow with money in my pocket than not at all.

rScotty

That could be a hit right now with fuel prices being forced up so high, record inflation, record interest rates, and wages unable to keep up with expenses.

 

[ddbackhoe]

That could be a hit right now with fuel prices being forced up so high, record inflation, record interest rates, and wages unable to keep up with expenses.

I think part of the “plan” is to keep us from being mobile. Concentrate the population in city centers making them more reliant on the “hand that feeds them”.

 

[jyoutz]

I think part of the “plan” is to keep us from being mobile. Concentrate the population in city centers making them more reliant on the “hand that feeds them”.

Plan?

 

[rScotty]

Chrysler was bailed out in 1979 and again in connection with the 2008 melt down. I'm not sure if the Chrysler bailout in 1979 was the first one, but that is the first one I remember, and it was controversial at the time.

In the "nothing is new" dept:

WASHINGTON, July 20, 1957 (AP) --Representative F. Edward Hebert, Democrat of Louisiana, said today that more than $25,000,000 of Defense Department money had been spent to "bail out" the Studebaker-Packard Corporation when it encountered a financial squeeze.

 

[TimberFarm]

In the "nothing is new" dept:

WASHINGTON, July 20, 1857 (AP) --Representative F. Edward Hebert, Democrat of Louisiana, said today that more than $25,000,000 of Defense Department money had been spent to "bail out" the Studebaker-Packard Corporation when it encountered a financial squeeze.

Studebaker in 1857??

 

[rScotty]

That could be a hit right now with fuel prices being forced up so high, record inflation, record interest rates, and wages unable to keep up with expenses.

It's an old idea - making something that is economical to buy and use. Sure would be nice to have a choice that actually saved money for consumers instead of making more for manufacturers.

Half the miles we put on the family sedan could be done just as well by something that got 80mpg and was comfortable in all weather.

 

[rScotty]

Studebaker in 1857??

try 1957 edit.

 

[5030]

Stude might have been around in 1857. They started out making horse drawn wagons in Fort Wayne before the motor cars.

 

[5030]

I'll keep on driving my 14 Focus RS. It gets 40 mpg combined. I'm good with that.