Today and tomorrow are the last two days of the Texas Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday:
These emergency preparation supplies qualify for tax exemption if purchased for a sales price:
Less than $3000
- Portable generators
Less than $300
- Emergency ladders
- Hurricane shutters
Less than $75
- Axes
- Batteries, single or multipack (AAA cell, AA cell, C cell, D cell, 6 volt or 9 volt)
- Can openers – nonelectric
- Carbon monoxide detectors
- Coolers and ice chests for food storage – nonelectric
- Fire extinguishers
- First aid kits
- Fuel containers
- Ground anchor systems and tie-down kits
- Hatchets
- Ice products – reusable and artificial
- Light sources – portable self-powered (including battery operated) Examples of items include: candles, flashlights and lanterns
- Mobile telephone batteries and mobile telephone chargers
- Radios – portable self-powered (including battery operated) – includes two-way and weather band radios
- Smoke detectors
- Tarps and other plastic sheeting
The Comptroller page notes that online sales count, so I’ve thrown up some Amazon links, most from my recent cold weather prep/gift guide.
Tags: prepper, Sales Tax Holiday, Texas, weather
Off-topic, but worth paying attention to:
https://twitter.com/Prune602/status/1780997995426672749
Lanchester Square Law is about to rear its ugly head.
I would not be surprised to see the entirety of the Russian war effort collapse in relatively short order, leaving those “gains” they’ve made cut off and surrounded on enemy territory. If the railways collapse, it’s only a matter of time until the entire Russian economy follows, and there’s no damn way they’re going to pull in any replacements soon enough to prevent that. The railways outsourcing maintenance to yet another “ghost” company was something I did not know about, but that’s what you get when you have a dumbass former KGB agent running things, vice someone who actually understands how an economy works…
Where will the Russians find 4.3 Trillion rubles? How do they intend to finance massive infrastructure development while simultaneously funding a war in Ukraine—through monetary inflation?
Ask LBJ how defying the Guns and Butter production possibilities curve worked out during the Viet Nam debacle. If this analysis is true, Russia is about to be gobsmacked by runaway inflation.
The root of the problem is that we’ve put a bunch of dumbasses in charge, around the world. What’s Joe Biden’s background…? Professional (retch…) politician. Zero economic or practical business experience. Putin? Former KGB agent; zero background in anything productive, besides espionage and subversion. Xi? CCP party hack, zero experience in anything practical or productive.
Check on all the morons running things, around the world: What did they ever do, to justify anyone entrusting them with the levers of power? Anything? Any of them? Anywhere?
The only exception I can think of is Singapore, where I believe the current President is a former practicing economist whose track record for getting things more-or-less right is reasonably good.
The rest of the world’s “leaders”? Most of them don’t appear to be capable of much of anything practical, aside from winning popularity contests or slaughtering their political opponents.
Were there any competent Russian leaders, they’d have figured out this railway thing back around 2015 or so… Instead? They’re gonna run Russia right into the nearest wall.
Mark my words… If the reports (and, there are others out there…) are accurate, then it’s fairly likely that before summer, the Russian rail network is going to be in dire straits, and only God knows when it will finally roll over and die. If the Ukrainians start targeting the transformer yards for the electrified rail mileage in European Russia? Yeesh… It’ll get ugly as soon as they have to redirect all the diesels to that region, and then when the diesels start breaking because “zero maintenance and overuse”?
Epic famine ain’t out of the question. Current Russian “success” in Ukraine looks more and more like “Brusilove Redux” from here…
Well, it’s already too late for them to take advantage of savings at the Texas Emergency Preparation Supplies Sales Tax Holiday…
This weekend I found that neither HEB nor Bass Pro programmed their registers for tax free weekend. I caught it at Bass Pro where it took 2 customer service counter people to trick the register into manually ringing up the purchase price minus the tax shown on the incorrect receipt. I was still paying tax with that method, but at that point I just wanted to leave didn’t care about the few $.