💥🦁💰 Trump Drops Bombshell Proposal: Allegedly Suggests Eliminating Income Tax in Favor of High Import Tariffs During DC Republicans Meeting 💥🦁💰
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This is great for all young people and for freedom, but it's an absolutely shit deal for older Americans who already paid a lifetime of income taxes only to see their savings and retirement benefits get gobbled up by tariffs which raise the price of goods, whether you're buying imports of domestic production that can now raise its prices higher.
But if you are off grid you are self sufficient, no?
For convenience sake currently I am not. For water, sewer, and power I mostly am.
But, I use about 250 gallons of propane a year for cooking and hot water (most usage is in the warm weather months when the wood boiler isn't running, but also anytime the thermal storage tank drops under about 130 degrees some temperature boosting happens from the instant water heater).
By the third cloudy day in a row I may have to burn a gallon or two in the generator depending what is going on and what I can postpone.
And I buy all my food, except sweet corn. I earn enough in three weeks of work to feed me for the whole year, and could actually live on half that if I had to (swap out ribeye or sirloin for pork, chicken, or hamburger). Anybody subsistence farming 100% of their food intake is spending more than that amount of time gardening and feeding, watering, and cleaning up after animals. I do have a number of years of food stored (a crazy friend stocked up for Y2k for his family of 4 and needed to unload it to fight his drug addicted wife for custody of his kids, so he sold it to me for half off and I add to it a bit each year and eat some of it so it strays rotated and never gets too old).
And I currently do my firewood the lazy way too. There is a timber industry up where I live so rather than stomping around in the woods trying to avoid getting killed felling trees I just purchase a truckload of hardwood logs from one of the timber companies (they don't care if they deliver to the sawmill's wood lot or the end of my driveway). Then I use the tractor to load them onto the deck of the wood processor which feeds, splits, and the conveyor fills up a modified IBC tote which the tractor moves into the wood shed for seasoning. I have the saws and mauls and COULD do it all manually from my acreage, but it's so much easier to do it the way I do it.