New tire tarriff = OUCH!

I buy everything from Discount Tire. Have never had issues.

There use to be a guy in Columbus all tires 25 mounted and balanced. He had a deal with the salvage yards. They were low milage tires off the wrecked cars.

Yes. and I won't do business with them.

BPS & Cabelas does this because they have retail stores now in Indiana.

If you lived in Kentucky and placed an order online you would not be charged sales tax as they have no stores in the state.

Believe me, the gov't knows they're losing tons of tax money. I'm this sure this will ALL end soon enough.

Really?

The new tire tarfiff increase, by the way, has nothing to do with whether the tire dealer collects the IN sales tax.

The increase is in the tariff on Chinese made tires imported here. It's a change in the tariff that is legal under the international trade agreements as an optional temporary remedy for a trade imbalance surge that threatens an American industry. Chinese tire imports have surged from 6 percent of the market to 20 percent, and Obama decided that the tariff increase should be invoked. May have something to do with the union's support of protective tariffs and also of liberal Democrats.

Buying tires made somewhere other than China would seem to be an option, but prices for most domestically manufactured tires have risen similarly, as the domestic companies try to recoup the losses they were suffering from the Chinese competition.

By the way, I just bought a set of tires for the wife's minivan from Rural King, a couple of months ago, and am so far very happy with them. Caught them on sale. Kelly Navigator Gold Touring, made in the USA, mounted and balanced with new stems for $306, including the sales tax.

They aren't truck tires, just 215/70 all-esason tires to fit the Montana, but thought I'd mention them while we're talking tires, as they seem to be an excellent value. Wet grip and traction are great, the ride is silent and smooth, and they're a 70,000 mile tire. Both the wife and I had occasion to climb on the brakes pretty hard a couple times on our recent trip to Detroit to visit the kids, and I was really surprised at the wet traction on that cold and rainy trip. No problems at all so far with the tires or the mounting and balancing job. Just thought I'd pass on a positive recommendation for a product and service that seems to deserve it.

Soapbox? .....well, OK, I guess I did get sort of jacked up there. I was cocked and primed by a few more of those TV ads last night for the tax services that are staffed by "former IRS employees" who are peddling their expertise at using the sloppy and ineffective techniques they applied during their careers providing us with leaky collection of the public's money, to now counsel other tax cheats in the ways to beat the system and let the honest taxpayers pick up their part of the tab.

Makes me want to set the dude's beard on fire.

We need the Fairtax. Do it all with a national sales tax with no taxes on owning stuff or earning stuff. One percentage for everyone on everything, goods and services. Would put us all in the harness pulling the wagon, ihstead of just the honest working guys pulling and the rest riding. Would also put the American manufacturer on a much more level playing field with his foreign competition.

I'm in the position finally to benefit from the current system, but I still would like to see a much more efficient, fair, and honest system in place.

Oh well, off the soapbox and back to the woods for a while.

So Russ you saying you don't like Patrick Cox? ;D All of those jerks get to me.

A very good reason ..... there are equally good reasons to go with an income tax.

Not considering the problem of those who would get paid under the table and therefore not pay taxes .... an income tax would take a percentage of every dollar every person made. That seems the fairest to me personally.