I especially agree that some dams on the Mississippi need to destroyed and have agriculture be moved away from the river, as the dead zone in Gulf of Mexico is caused by upstream agriculture states.
I feel bad for guy who tweeted as someone from East Texas. Main reasons I want to go into hunting is to the keep wild boar population in check, or at least slow their growth.
I'm from Central texas, own 50 acres in the hill country and own several ar-15's. This guy is delusional, no one is shooting 30-50 hogs on their property. I only read the first few paragraphs but so far the conversation is ridiculous.
The sharpest shooters can get a few as they scatter, they are damn smart and very capable.
They fly in helicopters and can shoot that many in a day. Its usually very large areas (thousands of acres) with a surrounding game fence. Since the hogs have no natural predators they have to be removed somehow and this is one common route. Vastly different scenario then a small 50 acre place.
That is not a good idea. Innocent people will die when forgotten mines go off in a decade, and full auto weaponry is probably overkill. I can't imagine your aim is going to get any better when you're firing in full auto, unless you're far closer than you want to be.
Plus there are far easier solutions. Poisoned corn does about the same thing as mines, but with less risk (assuming you put up signs) and cost. Both are probably still bad ideas, though, because of the effect on other wildlife.
The goal of the program is to put EV's on the road. Limiting it by income does not help that.
The average cost of a new car is $40k, which is where they are setting the cap.
Electric vehicles cost more than their gas counterparts.
This is an attempt to kill the tax credit all together...
From my vantage point, the goal of the program has appeared to be to enrich Elon Musk. With each (tax subsidized) car sold, he then got to sell the offsets to the legacy car manufacturers. This has been green-washed tax harvesting on an enormous scale.
Tesla is already supply limited. They sell every car they produce and are ramping as fast as they can. So, this tax credit doesn't help them sell more cars. The credit was meant as a boost to legacy automakers--or more specifically their union labor force who are big political donors.
The cap kind of defeats the purpose of the credit though. Legacy automakers aren't currently able to profitably make a compelling, long-range BEV at a $40k price point. So they'll have to push crappy shorter-range models or polluting plug-in hybrids if the credit allows it. It also would hurt Tesla because it would make their higher margin long-range models harder to sell vs. the lower margin standard range.
Yeah, as someone who grew up (and still is) lower middle class near rural areas, DGs and the like served a niche that would be hard-press to be filled by other companies, national or local.
So I can't really blame a company for taking over a market underserved. They are a symptom of larger changes in the economy and society, that which one SHOULD criticize.
Yeah, I don’t think this is the dollar store chain’s fault. They are serving a niche. The problem is that this is such a growing niche, that well, it isn’t really a niche anymore.
The problem is poor and low to middle income folks everywhere in America seem to be getting poorer.
