Tariff war and it's impact on trucking

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  1. DUNE-T

    DUNE-T Road Train Member

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    Some are, some are not. It depends. I assume you are talking about people who spend money on nice cars, clothes and all the stuff?
     
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  3. Midwest Trucker

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    Yeah, I wasn’t thinking exactly that but that’s an example for sure. Have you saw those graphics sometimes on FB where it shows sacrifice now and live great/easy later, or live great/easy now and things be hard for the rest of your life?

    I relate with that a lot. I’ve always played the long game and “sacrificed” for the long term benefit since I was a youngster. I do enjoy the benefits now but it did take a long time. At the same time I see others who took a different path and they are broke week to week with no end in sight.

    Edit: One thing I’ve learned is that if you sacrifice long enough things just become engrained in you. I could buy about anything I wanted I suppose but I still drive an old truck and wear old clothes. lol But those things don’t make me happy so I don’t really care. It’s freedom and time with loved ones that makes me happy.
     
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  4. MacLean

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    When Quebec ran out of Natural Gas and the province was about to freeze up Alberta helped them. They should have made them sign the dotted line first of they’d have gotten nothing.
     
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  6. Vampire

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    We didn’t have income taxes prior to 1913. Govt was small, and a family with multiple children could be raised on one income. The IRS (name changed in 1950 something) came around in 1862, ended and then came back in 1913 after the 16th amendment.

    Fuel taxes, IFTA, income taxes, excise taxes, DOT, parking issues (imagine if we relied on central planning for parking), HOS rules, exorbitant tolls, crumbling infrastructure and so on. Customer service? Nope. I’d rather a private road and highway system where there is competition and Customers (all of us) are catered to, instead of looked at like a source of income for ticket blitzes, ridiculous fines, fees and so on.
     
  7. gentleroger

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    You do realize that a private road and highway system would be entirely toll funded, right? There is no way that tolls could fund the maintenance on a road like I-39, I-43, I-69, or any interstate in thr Dakotas or Montana. Not to mention all the little roads connecting small towns, or the surface streets.

    I'll also point out that most private toll roads fail and declare bankruptcy. Just like most privatized services see rate increases and service declines.

    Oh, and good luck funding an aircraft carrier through tariffs and sales tax.
     
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    [QUOTE="Gearjammin' Penguin, post: 13114953, member: .wait a few days for the dust to settle and see how it all shakes out.[/QUOTE]

    And that is one of the problems with this strategy- companies will wait and see before making a decision on expansion. At best that will create a lull now before a boom later that will crash back down to current freight levels. At worst, companies will eshew American markets and American goods because they don't want the headache.
     
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  9. Ruthless

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    The government is not here to help you.
     
  10. Vampire

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    Your excuses to sacrifice liberty for a bloated, crumbling false sense of security is noted.

    That said, I would gladly pay for a service, like I do any other, that caters to me and other consumers of that service. Not one that takes the money, abuses it and claims that roads would be impossible without central planning…when those results of said service is abysmal.

    James J Hill proved so many of the same naysayers wrong. The market is able to handle really complex things. The privateers did so as well. There’s a reason the same “phenomenon” that plagued even the building of the USS Constitution and the USS President remain today.

    I prefer dangerous Liberty over a phony sense of security, which is evident in the central planning of roads and so on.
     
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  11. rollin coal

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    I remember years ago when Indiana privatized the I-90 toll road one of the first things that happened soon afterwards was a massive toll increase that had everybody up at arms. Interstate highways are not just for commerce they're also for national security. There are some things the government should be doing and I would definitely put roads into that category.
     
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