Samsonite801
Solar Wizard
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- Oct 15, 2020
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A laudable goal. Just don't miss the forest for the trees. You can't get out of paying to keep your car running, food, rent to the government (property tax), tribute to the healthcare system so they keep you alive longer, internet, and paying for replacements to stuff that breaks especially your cheap Chinese solar parts.
I bet those costs are way more than what the power company charges.
I was an ASE Certified Master Technician (with F1 CNG certs) for 20 years in my previous career, I fix all my own vehicles my whole life. I know the cheapest ways to fix any car problems, tractors, semi trucks, anything really, I'm not worried about fixing stuff. Of course it's not free, you still have to buy parts hehe...
I joined an agricultural co-op to learn how to grow my own food (still not quite there yet), but the idea is to learn to live and become more self-reliant...
As far as health care... I hope I don't live too long a time, I'd take death first.. I haven't seen a doctor in more than a decade, had enough of Western medicine, generally... Although my employer still takes out money for my medical plan. I probably wouldn't quit my job anytime soon.
The property tax thing though, that one disgusts me, that is unconstitutional. It means the government really owns your property. I have no problem with any other kind of tax (income tax, sales tax, gas tax, etc), except property taxes. It just drives out old people with fixed retirement incomes, from their properties since the valuations keep going up every year, their incomes are fixed (eventually can get driven out of their home they spent their whole life building). You can't really own any real estate, the government really owns it (you rent it from them until death basically).
As far as power company costs, this new property I'm building out on the ranch, doesn't have any power for many miles away from it, so I kind of have to figure out my own off-grid solution there anyways.
I guess it's all part of the game though
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