It’s okay to be wrong sometimes.

Forgot to mention more employees = higher benefit cost for the company as well.

Did you learn anything from Caddyshack? “The world needs ditch diggers too!” I agree that we are an advanced economy but you need a diverse set of jobs as well since not everyone can work in that industry, whether by choice or unlucky life lottery. Also, hard to imagine innovating and not understanding basic concepts…

Yes and no and somewhere in the middle. Yes for China since they require a certain amount of local content in manufactured items and because items imported to China, like automobiles, are taxed at a high percentage forcing manufacturers to set up shop in China and be associated with a local manufacturer (not common in…

Tesla is a few days shy of 14 years old...

I agree with your last point.

Completely agree. My point of reference is a ‘16 PHEV Sonata Limited with Ultimate pkg. Stickered higher at ~$38.6k but because no one wanted fuel efficient cars when I bought it (heavy incentives), I was down to ~$24.2k when factoring in state and federal tax credit. Rolled my >$20k check from my 5 year old, 90k mi,…

Trying to fix ILLEGAL immigration does not make you a racist. Might want to question your brain washer next time and have an independent thought every once and awhile.

Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do which is actually quite refreshing. Why do you think the opposing side is so upset? Because he is doing what they didn’t want him to do and because his ideas were the opposite of a poor administration and an unaligned message from the democratic party - either you were a…

No one else is confused.

Recalls shouldn’t impact it since they are taken care of for free by the mfg.

To most sane and normal people, Chairman, mankind, Selectman (local government) etc understand that man does not equal an actual man, it is a neutral term for the position.

Totally understand that. I am in mfg, not automotive though, and involved with items being built in the US and shipped to other parts of our company or customers worldwide. We have sources of material and lower level parts and assys from all over our local area as well as half way around the world, thousands of…

Pretty easy to see why. Probably not asking for more than 40-50% of the power on tap, even at peak use on an average daily basis, limited stress on the engine and driveline components. Also, there isn’t much to go wrong. No ABS issues or traction nannies and associated sensors to fail. It really is a brutal and simple…

I get your points and I wasn’t trying to go after teachers specifically, just noting a fact. There are also other factors that make a successful education system, it isn’t the only metric (not that I think you are arguing that specifically).

trying to delete my post because I didn’t see the original comment you were referring too, damn kinja

Check the payrolls of the T (public transportation), state police, etc in MA. Also, teachers here are paid well too, I believe MA pays the third highest average. But when overtime is allowed to be greater than your salary, you have issues. The amount of unqualified but connected people who spend a lot of time in…

As of 2016, 44.3% of Americans didn’t pay any federal income tax. That means nearly 44.3% definitely got more than they put in.

Applies to MA, even worse for CT right now.

Or the counterpoint (assuming you are pro higher taxes, without thought) which is that we do know the budgets and see how inflated they are because of past poor decisions on pensions and healthcare guarantees that are significantly above what the average tax payer has access to. The amount of corruption and thievery…