I say keep your distance at gas stations, and go for it.

While I would agree that the dealer system is flawed and ridiculous.

I’m pretty sure an untraceable slush fund for corporations would work just as well.

Rather than spending huge sums bailing out each industry individually, which will do no good anyway because it just defers the crunch rather than preventing it, how about we just give everybody with a social security number a huge cash sum to spend how they wish. Like two years median wage for every American, and let…

Imagine if the industry had spent the last decade developing a modern sales model that didn’t require hours of in-person up-selling and paperwork, instead of lobbying for legislation that required it. 

That guy is about a second away from his first Darwin award in the dual discipline category.

I agree, there should be strict conditions on what the bail out money is used for, paying employees and suppliers and not for paying bonuses etc. It should also be interest paying once the entities are able to operate normally again.

No, as an employee you should be getting money directly from the bailout. You shouldn’t have to rely on it to be filtered through the company before you get it. 

Give the money to the people. It will all trickle up to the companies eventually.

Let the companies fail, then give the bailout money to the employees.

In principle I agree with you (and the above poster). But if huge companies know the government will cover them if they make a losing bet, why wouldn’t they make high-risk/high-reward bets all the time? These bailouts incentivize high-risk behavior.

I thought the great thing about capitalism is that the market will respond to demand? If one company goes under, then someone else will step in to fill the void if there is a demand for that product/service. The skilled workforce would get picked up by the new company.

At least one of these describes most large businesses. While it’s appealing, it would put a lot of people out of work.

Username checks out.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think Rob works in the office with the full-timers. He’s west coast maybe? He works remote and bangs out NPoCP daily with a “IDGAF if y’all just look at the pics an scroll down to vote, I’m writing another masterpiece” kind of attitude.

I think the Ranger is a great suggestion. The Macan is a little odd, but Tom makes a solid argument for it. The other two are the obligatory jokes.

They’re parked on the lot right next to the $35k Tesla Model 3s.

Reconditioned. 

New or used?

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