On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:43:08 -0400, Clare Snyder
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:20:09 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:02:55 -0400, Clare Snyder
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:30:57 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:58:01 +1000, "Rod Speed"
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:28:03 -0400, Tekkie®
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posted for all of us...



On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:51:39 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
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the investment in panels
returned 30% the first year (federal tax break)

The "investment" didn't pay you back, the tax payers did ... with
borrowed money.

A point I was going to make; once again you beat me to the punch ;-)

Solar subsidies are welfare for the rich.

Not the rich so much as those who can afford to install them.

Excuse me, those rich enough to install them. That works.
It also excludes vast swaths of the population who either rent or who
couldn't come up with a thousand bucks if their life depended on it.
A huge percentage of Americans couldn't scratch together HALF of that
- - -

When my wife was selling A/C she was amazed at the number of people
living in gated communities in 3500 sq/ft houses with luxury cars in
the driveway who couldn't come up with $5000 and couldn't get a loan.
The whole kit and kaboodle was leveraged to the hilt - that's why so
many lost virtually everything in 08. In many cases they only "owned"
less than 10%.

My last car payment and my last mortgage payment were about the same
time - about 1992?. (at about age 40)
My last new car (actually my ONLY new one) was 1976.

Going for a mediteranean cruse in October.

We are blood brothers there. I own a lot of stuff and I don't owe
anyone. That is how I retired at 49.