For Model Ys built in Austin, they have to ship the vehicle out of state, sell it to you out of state, and then bring it back. So much for being environmentally conscious.
You have to complete the financing before taking delivery, but you don’t pay the Texas sales tax until you re-register it back here. So you have to be ready with another $3,750 in cash on a $60,000 Tesla. I don’t know if you pay the foreign state’s sales tax in addition; it would likely be unavoidable.
The more I hear about Texas politicized economics for cars, liquor, electricity, etc…, the more it confirms just how broken that state is. In a sea of broken states, they find creative ways to stand head and shoulders above the rest. At the core of all the brokenness seems to always be protecting not really the political interests of constituents but protecting the funding of the political machine. And, their decisions seem to pander to the highest bidder moreso than some morally or strategically focused political strategy. Just an observation from an outsider that has not analyzed it much more than a cursory glance.
You’re not wrong with any of it. Add to the list that the state is the hardest in which to register to vote plus supercharged gerrymandering, and you have a system designed in a lab to insulate those in power from actual democracy.
I’ve wondered about this too. It’s only a matter of time before the Republicans figure out there’s too much money to skim to hold out any longer. It’ll be fascinating to see what sort of clusterfuckery ensues.
All I can say that if you’re Texas and you’re looking to Oklahoma for leadership on something you seriously need to reevaluate what you’re doing.
They’ll sell it as an aid for PTSD so that they can march it down the street in a flag parade. And then you get to set up a whole new bureaucracy that you can staff with political contributors. Easy peasy.
This is how our “medical” system works in Arkansas. There’s a commission, of sorts, appointed by the governor (who used to be head of the DEA) and heads of the legislature. Lots of conflict-of-interest medical specialists, politicians, cops, and especially lawyers have been appointed to the board, but not one patient.
Don’t get me started on how fucked state liquor laws are in this country. They’re arcane relics from Prohibition that only survive because distributors have paid way too much money buying state legislators.
Fortunately, you can at least buy in Texas and have it shipped to you. I mean, if you happen to know a guy who makes wine in California.
I was in Rhode Island last fall and went into a grocery store to buy a 6-pack, but you can only buy 6-packs in package stores, which can’t open on a Sunday, which it happened to be. I suspect this has to do with Rhode Island’s mafia past, but I thought at the time, this is even more screwed up than Texas, and that’s hard to do.
Admittedly this was a decade or so ago but, in PA, you could only buy liquor at a liquor store and beer you had to buy at a separate place that only sold it in flats. The choice was shit, too.
When I lived in North Carolina there were places (including Wake County where I lived) you could only buy hard liquor, not beer or wine, outside a restaurant. The theory was that underage kids wouldn’t want the hard stuff. Yeah, sure.
