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Azbadlands

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  1. They should honestly, along with New Mexico, and California.
  2. Nice story, sounds like a magical place still where the government doesn't control everything. I wanted to build a small cabin on my land that I own outright in the middle of almost nowhere in AZ with my own money, and the County still has building codes, guidelines, inspections you have to pass for anything over 250 square feet that is not for livestock use. Maybe I could hire some migrants to do it cheap, but wonder how many inspections I would fail?
  3. In California, and especially AZ, they love it when your A/C goes out in your home or car. They start dreaming about the $$$$ they can get out of you. Especially AZ, because they know you aren't living here without it...
  4. I probably don't live where you live, and I did shop around, had to get multiple quotes for insurance.
  5. That was what I was quoted by 4 different companies in the area. It was just a standard tile roof, on almost 1,900 square foot house....With a big back porch that got reshingled also.
  6. Maybe they do, but they still charge an arm and a leg no matter, at least where I have owned homes in the last 10 years. Spent 20,000 dollars on a roof replacement, and almost 20,000 dollars having A/C replaced on last house I owned...
  7. I have done all of that because of people I know in the Border Patrol that have asked me to volunteer..I've went down there to help when it's Summer here too when it's hot enough to fry an egg on the top of your head.. My friends and I ride in on horseback and hunt and camp in a lot of the same areas as well, and have helped many immigrants with food, water, directions for help, etc. Have run into several drug mules, and spotters up in the mountains, just stay away from those types.
  8. More chance than anyone on here that probably hasn't even been near the really bad parts of the border, and think every story is sensationalized for political reasons, or just numb to the stories so don't give a shit.. If you're from AZ, have you ever volunteered to go down to the border with groups that help distressed immigrants in the desert? Or groups that clean up the trash down there or find and bury the bodies? Or do you just sit on your ass watching Juan mow your lawn In Gilbert, or Scottsdale?
  9. They did cover it, but it happened years ago. It was on the local news here in Arizona for a while... Do you think they cover border crap daily here? It's like nonstop bad news, ranchers complaining, drug busts, dead people found in desert, cartel shootouts across the border...It's same shit, different day, every day, so anything that happens anymore doesn't even much make the evening news here, like that story above...First time I heard about it was from my friend and I read it on the internet..
  10. You want a recent story from what you might consider a trustworthy news source, here you go - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/five-bodies-found-in-torched-suv-in-arizona-likely-drug-related-violence-police-say/ Half the shit doesn't even get reported anymore, because like you said, the cartels are violent, and everyone knows it and who gives a shit, right?
  11. It's because it happened years ago, and honestly it's not huge news anymore...They've found hundreds of bodies in the desert mostly due to exhaustion, being abandon by the coyote cartel dudes leaving them behind. There's groups of people that go out searching for the bodies to make sure they get buried properly...If you want a similar more recent story of how the cartels murder and rid themselves of enemies in Arizona here you go - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/five-bodies-found-in-torched-suv-in-arizona-likely-drug-related-violence-police-say/
  12. There's been problems at the border since forever, and it's just gotten progressively worse to the point it is at now. Everyone who has been elected in DC that's watched the shitshow for years and years is responsible. It shouldn't even be a question on either side of the aisle that we need way better laws around immigration...They all just keep passing the buck on the issue or coming up with really stupid "supposedly bipartisan" crappy Bills that they know will never pass...In fact, it seems like the only time they try to make laws is when they know that it won't pass.
  13. They get something called FERS...I don't know anything about it, but I know a couple of retired police officers in Phoenix that make really good money from their pension. Like close to the salary they were making when they retired...Not sure if it's the same though..
  14. I did answer. But, to be more precise, they feel like they are not being allowed to do the job they were hired and trained to do. They are basically being forced to be babysitters and paper pushers and work very long hours and not enforce the law. They wanted to work in law enforcement and make a difference. Now they are just used as pawns by politicians. Top that off with all the shit they've seen related to patrolling the border for many years and the strain it's put on their family life then yeah, they have some mental health issues... They are literally just in it for the pension now, and counting the days, and hate the job, the ones I know..
  15. Why don't you ask to go on a patrol with them at night in the southern mountains of Arizona? Then you can find out how they feel. We know that ain't happening, Right? From what I see, most of them just want to collect their pension and retire, or shoot themselves...It's not an easy job...You realize a lot of them have committed suicide right?
  16. I can't wait for your response. Before you do though, I will let you know my nephew and my best friend both work for the Border Patrol in AZ. My son works for Game and Fish in AZ, and my Brother in law just retired recently as a Detective in Yuma, AZ down by the border..So fire away with all the bullshit the media has told you....
  17. I guess the one's they find across the border in Mexico are fake too? And, all the stories the immigrants here in AZ have told are lies? The Cartels are fricking animals. A few years back they parked a Suburban on the Arizona side of the border loaded from top to bottom with freshly sawed off body parts... You think immigrant women mean anything to them? They are just a piece of meat for them to use as they please when they can't pay for the trip across the border.
  18. Arizona gave up a long time ago on fighting the FEDs over the border. They tried to pass several laws about a decade or so ago to allow local and state authorities to make arrests/ have more control over the border, etc and got shot down by the SCOTUS in every case. They even tried to pass a law similar to the one Texas is in a lawsuit over now back then..They were tied up in lots of lawsuits for several years. But to act like Arizona doesn't have issues at the border? That's crazy. I can take you down there to an area I hunt and show you all kinds of things. Even a couple of fresh rape trees if they haven't been cleaned up by the local do-gooders already.
  19. Where I grew up in Texas, the time and place, almost everyone did their own handy work. Their were illegal immigrants around, but they weren't doing any work that white people/ black people, etc didn't also do...Mostly teenagers/ 20 and 30 year olds that grew up around my hometown did the real grunt work on ranches and in the oil field...I made money for college doing all kinds of manual labor jobs from working in the oilfield, welding, framing houses/ barns, painting, hauling hay, working cattle, etc... You could be right, the whole world might collapse without the cheap labor, but it didn't back then and there was way less people in the country illegally in the 70's and 80s.. Anyway, I didn't imply we don't need those kinds of manual labor workers here in the US, what I said was immigration needs to be controlled and maintained in the country by us, our government..Way better than it is now. I couldn't or maybe don't know to get away with paying an undocumented immigrant to do major work with insurance money on any of the houses i've owned. They always asked for licensed contractor everywhere I've owned a house.
  20. I don't do any of that hiring. I've been the grunt my entire life since growing up on a ranch in North Central Texas... You're talking about really rich people. I wasn't trying to distract, I'm just saying that the Middle class should be voting based on how immigration will impact them... Yeah, food prices could be higher, but some of the rest of the stuff you brought up, we are already feeling it. I can't just go out and hire some undocumented immigrant to work on something major on my house to save money. There are building codes, insurance rules, etc. I'm still gonna have to pay a licensed contractor a boatload of money. If it is something minor, I'll just do it myself... I guess what I'm saying is, if it eventually raises my taxes now or in the future to pay for all these people that are coming by the droves, to get them situated in the country and cared for, etc. How is it benefiting the Middle class taxpayer? I'm not against immigration, I just think it needs to be controlled by our government and maintained at certain levels.
  21. It was literally at the end of the tax year when I moved to AZ, so most of the income was earned in California. However, I will have to look into it this year..I go back and forth between here and California a lot traveling for work, not sure how they will handle the situation. I'm going to have to hire someone to do the taxes that knows the laws.
  22. You're close, I do live in AZ, but I work remotely for a company out of California, so I got taxed at California's state income rate. At least I did last year when I first moved here. My company is starting to build an office here in AZ now so won't be based out of California anymore soon. I probably paid around 34 to 35 % taxes total based on your calculations last year..
  23. If you don't have a problem with it, you can sponsor me and pay my 5 to 6,000 extra a year to the Government...I feel like I pay enough already.
  24. For one thing, I live in a state where I have state income tax unlike Texas, and it keeps inching up. I also live in a state that seems like overall things cost more than several other states, like gas, food, real estate, services, etc..Just going off of places I've visited, or what people I know out of state tell me. I don't own a home, my wife and I rent, but we own land that we pay taxes on. We both make a fairly decent income, but don't really have a lot of write offs. We both probably make a little more than the national average income, but not wealthy by any means. I claim 2 dependents and she claims none. We used to get maybe 5 to 6,000 in tax returns a year but this previous year we got exactly 0...Even owed money to the Fed, which was paid for by the return we got from the state so ended up with nothing.
  25. Really? I need to breakdown for you how the government taxes the shit out of the working class in this country in any way that they can? Why do you think there was a mass exodus in California in the past few years? If the high taxes haven't hit your state yet, I envy you..
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