Tractors and (upcoming) tariffs?

[Fixastuff]

I guess it's time to unwatch this thread so as not to see governmental pigeons patting themselves on the back.

lol a sensitive one I guess. I worked one summer for local government and knew it wasn’t for me.

 

[sunandsand]

Discussion is healthy. I always try to remind myself that other people may have very different views on a subject than I do, and I try to understand how they got there. Sometimes I wind up changing my mind.

I think the biggest problem in politics (and not just in US politics, local, state or national, but all over the world) is that when someone takes an absolutist position they won't alter it, even in the face of facts. Questioning these views (even calmly, gently and rationally) is taken as a personal attack.

Churchill got it right when he said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the others.

With Best Regards,
Mike/Florida

 

[Hay Dude]

Discussion is healthy. I always try to remind myself that other people may have very different views on a subject than I do, and I try to understand how they got there. Sometimes I wind up changing my mind.

I think the biggest problem in politics (and not just in US politics, local, state or national, but all over the world) is that when someone takes an absolutist position they won't alter it, even in the face of facts. Questioning these views (even calmly, gently and rationally) is taken as a personal attack.

Churchill got it right when he said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the others.

With Best Regards,
Mike/Florida

Representative republics are one that is better

 

[jyoutz]

Representative republics are one that is better

A representative republic is a form of democracy. Representative democracy.

 

[Riding a Relic]

Doing away with all income taxes would result in much higher sales taxes and fees for just about everything. Nothing is free.

Well, of course, but they can just run up the debit we have with the Federal Reserve Bank, which is as Federal as FedX. As long as the economy stays afloat, but they have been running on fractional reserve banking so long now, the timbers holding the bridge up are rotting.

 

[Riding a Relic]

Doing away with all income taxes would result in much higher sales taxes and fees for just about everything. Nothing is free.

So, you know, they hired a bunch of college kids as enforcement for the IRS 85,000 I think is the hires. They looked like clowns in their training, cause they were arming them. This will result in getting them killed, if this keeps up. I mean, nobody wants to deal with the agency that can destroy your life, your holdings, they might leave you with your pets, but you will all be off your land. I always add after a post like this, Alphabet agencies, come get me, I'm not that hard to find.

 

[Riding a Relic]

So, you know, they hired a bunch of college kids as enforcement for the IRS 85,000 I think is the hires. They looked like clowns in their training, cause they were arming them. This will result in getting them killed, if this keeps up. I mean, nobody wants to deal with the agency that can destroy your life, your holdings, they might leave you with your pets, but you will all be off your land. I always add after a post like this, Alphabet agencies, come get me, I'm not that hard to find.

 

[Riding a Relic]

Congress is well aware of agency operations, talks with secretaries often, and can and does direct agency operations by laws and funding. They also pass and rescind laws to achieve their objectives. This is how it actually works. Believe what you want.

This is what the government is good for.https://youtu.be/d30O8Tq-huM

 

[jyoutz]

So, you know, they hired a bunch of college kids as enforcement for the IRS 85,000 I think is the hires. They looked like clowns in their training, cause they were arming them. This will result in getting them killed, if this keeps up. I mean, nobody wants to deal with the agency that can destroy your life, your holdings, they might leave you with your pets, but you will all be off your land. I always add after a post like this, Alphabet agencies, come get me, I'm not that hard to find.

The IRS didn’t hire 85k enforcement officers. They hired people to process returns and provide customer service. And some auditors. More nonsense rumors. But you believe what you want, I’m not playing the game. People are acting like agencies don’t have congressional oversight. They do.

 

[ultrarunner]

DOGE is a ridiculous concept; it's self-contradictory, replicating what already exists.

Sometimes a fresh set of eyes from outside looking in spurs positive change...

During the lockdown hospital regulators were no where to be found yet hospitals stepped up to meet the extra ordinary demands.

There is a lot of material waste plus trash generated in a Hospital setting from outdates, single use items, etc...

During the lockdown the supply chain was disrupted and reprocessing single use, extending outdates and doing more with less became the norm.

One of our well seasoned combat docs said it best when he said supplies that outdate in the civilian world don't in the military world...

We had thousands of N95 masks that outdated... normally they would be discarded but in a worldwide mask shortage they were not.

The rationale behind the expiration date is the elastic straps on the mask may loose tension over time...

It's not rocket science to stretch the elastic and check for yourself...

Optimal storage is a far greater variable as opposed to a date stamped on a box...