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  1. 8 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    I thought Texas was going to de-annex AZ after the last election.

    They should honestly, along with New Mexico, and California.

  2. On 1/28/2024 at 6:53 AM, South Austin said:

    Nobody is asking for a license in Texas. General contractors and handymen aren’t required to have one.

    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?

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  3. Just now, fattyflattie said:

    Eh. Mine is pretty typical and not all that big and that’s in line with what I was getting quotes last year. A bit high on the AC unless you are running several 5tons ( at least as of a few years/SEER levels ago) 

     

    That’s fine, let’s curb our spending to help them out some?  That would help everyone, no?

    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. Just now, 4th&Five said:

    I’ve had both of those things done in the last 2 years and neither cost close to 20k. Maybe shop around next time. 

    I probably don't live where you live, and I did shop around, had to get multiple quotes for insurance.

  5. 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Either that's a very non-standard roof, a very large roof, or you got ripped off big-time.

    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. On 1/28/2024 at 6:35 AM, scottsins said:


    As to your last comment, have you ever considered that the licensed contractors might be using undocumented labor?

    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. 1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

    You haven't done any of that

    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.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Zonahorn said:

    There is zero chance this guy is from Arizona

    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?

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  9. 24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    That’s not the story, or even type of story, you specifically cited in your post. Yes, the cartels are bad, and do bad shit….which is reported, regularly. By outfits like CBS. Your post indicated there was some SUV overloaded with body parts, and the media won’t cover it. It also followed the discussion about the utter bullshit that is “rape trees,” which has zero substantiation. In other words…it was bullshit.
    Cartels have been killing people for decades. It’s FASCINATING how it 1) just became a crisis that 2) means that the Dems are bad people encouraging and supporting such things…on January 20, 2021. I mean, what an AMAZING coincidence!

    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..

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  10. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    The cartels are bad. Duh.
    But we don’t believe you on the outrage stories because this is playing out EXACTLY like the old “we found prayer rugs and Korans in the desert! Mooslem terrorists are sneaking over the border!” bullshit we heard 10 years ago. Exactly the same. Promulgated by nutbar right wing websites. No actual proof, just apocryphal “I know a guy who knows a guy who is CBP, and he saw it!”
    While immigration is among the many issues that are legitimate grounds for policy debate, the current crisis is being politically manufactured 1) almost entirely by one party in order to 2) manipulate you into voting for them. Which you will do.
    You’re being COMPLETELY PLAYED, and you don’t even get it.

    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?

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  11. 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:


    you won’t find it 

    but it’s happened a couple of times around lake chapala. great great area, full of ex pats 

    https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/a-smell-of-death-mexicos-truck-of-corpses-highlights-drug-war-crisis

    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/

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  12. 4 hours ago, Goredho said:

    If it was my best friend and nephew at risk of suicide as a result of the border crisis, I would be seriously pissed at the people responsible, too.  I’m sorry they are pawns in a deadly game.  I’m sorry you can’t connect the dots to see who is putting them in the position they are in.

    Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) argued it is “immoral” for Republicans to reject a border deal to help former President Trump.

    “I didn’t come here to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy,” Tillis said Thursday, first reported by NBC News. “It is immoral for me to think you looked the other way because you think this is the linchpin for President Trump to win.”

    Members on both sides of the aisle are upset with Trump’s attempt to kill the border deal to deny President Biden a legislative win. His recent remarks calling for GOP members to oppose a border deal that isn’t H.R. 2 have complicated things for the Senate.

    Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the effort to kill the bill “appalling.” Romney argued that there is an issue at the southern border and anyone running for president should be attempting to solve it now — instead of solving it later and taking credit for it down the road. 

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4432079-thom-tillis-immoral-kill-border-deal-trump/amp/

    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.

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  13. 30 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    Wait.

    They get a government pension?

    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..

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  14. 25 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    Because you deliberately implied you knew due to your connections, asshole, and invited us to "fire away". Your lack of an answer was expected and monotonously noted, fuckpuddle. I will be likely going back to one of favorite places on Earth this year and depending on the flow, happily basking in the freedom you and your Super Patriot Eagle Freedom Guys falsely claim to love, effortlessly wade back and forth across the Rio Grande and thank my lucky stars I was born in Texas. 

    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..

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  15. 43 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    2) Do Border Patrol personal believe the United States is being invaded by a hostile military force and they (BP) are a military force to repel the aforementioned military force?

    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?

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  16. 37 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Waiting for someone to tell us all we are toxic before responding to this stupid shit.

    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....

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  17. 7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    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.  

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  18. 2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Any of our maga idiot posters want to explain this one ….

     

    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.

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  19. 57 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

     

    You cannot be from Texas, because in Texas, you are surrounded by illegal immigrants doing everything from mowing the lawns or new roofs to building various developments.  This state is arguably as successful as it is, and has a lower cost of living in many areas, because of the illegal immigrant labor.  This state would collapse if the illegal immigrants were driven out..

    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. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    He doesn’t give a shit, because his first two posts in this thread were to distract from a couple of us who were mentioning that Republicans don’t want to give up their lawn care guys or pool boys or maids, or cheap poultry or produce or cheap building/construction costs and so they won’t do anything to actually reduce the desirability of coming to the US by drying up the jobs here.

    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. 17 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:

    Generally speaking California should only tax your wages for work performed in California. If you were working in Arizona, then you could probably file a California non-resident return and get a refund.

    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. 48 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    You're not really spelling it out. In fact, now you're saying it's the cost of things and not taxation. Don't get me wrong, taxes are a major portion of a budget and money gets eaten up fast when you get hit will all the stuff we seem to have to spend on these days. But saying it's all tax just isn't correct. 

    Say you make $150K as a household. Here's the tax calculator:

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    So that's 27.3% in taxes. AZ (where I assume you are) has an average property tax of around 0.75% from what I find. Say your land is worth $200K -- that's $1,500 in property taxes, which would bump the total tax rate to $42,455 or 28.3% effective.

    Unless you're spending about $510,000 per year that incurs sales tax at 8.3%, then you aren't anywhere near 60% in taxes.

    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..

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  23. 14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yeah, the "I no longer get a refund" angle is meaningless.

    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. 3 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Yes. I honestly don't see how you can arrive at 60% taxation. 

    I'm self-employed and pay around 20-25% in income taxes, which includes a double dip for social security. Say we spent $100K each year (we spend less) and all that was subject to sales tax -- that's $8,250. In reality, it's much lower. Property taxes, which are high in Texas, are about $7,000 for our home.

    So if I made $100,000, then I'm hitting a max of 40% (25% + 8.25% + 7%) of my income in taxes. Fortunately, we're doing better and our total tax rate is lower.

    I guess if you owned an expensive home and made a modest amount of income, that could do it, but I think that's a rare case for most.

     

     

     

    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. 12 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    You're going to need to break that down. It seems unrealistic. 

    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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