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I absolutely get where you are coming from. Cannot imagine the horrors your family experienced and don’t want to experience them first hand.
Those of us born, raised and have lived here in the US for decades look at this very differently.
Accepting the government reaching into your pocket and controlling you in a way that your family were accustomed, doesn’t change the freedoms we’ve grown accustomed and we‘ll fight to keep.
There is a reason you are here, it’s not because you liked where you came from. Let things like this slide, over time this country will be like the one you fled.
Based on where you live and your attitude towards not minding reaching into your pocket has labeled you as a very successful person financially. Good on you and what you’ve built. Don’t feel guilty if you want to keep what you’ve worked so hard to earn.
I agree with the sentiment and spirit of your post, but I personally disagree with the premise that cyclical fluctuations in tax policies and saveur du jour virtue signaling efforts (in our current time surrounding electrification, alternative energy development, and carbon taxes, etc.) amount to government oppression or are signs of democratic backsliding. If anything these are part and parcel of prototypically "Western" democracies where voter bases need to be appeased and lobbyists pandered to.

In any event I could move to Saudi Arabia and make 10x what I do now, pay zero income tax, not worry about carbon taxes, and shower in petroleum byproducts to my hearts content, but for obvious (I hope) reasons I prefer to live where I live now :like:

I just take the bad with the good, since the good vastly outweighs the bad. Again, just my opinion. I mean no offense to anybody.
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Acquiescence is what tyrants hope for, and most always achieve. They know the weaknesses and fallacies of the human condition.
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Come on Tom. As an owner of a CFTP car you should understand this. Me, as a lowly GT/CS owner have no freakin' clue! :clap::like:
Understand what? Has the world gone bonkers?
 

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Don't feed the troll. It longs for oppression.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2016-ford-shelby-gt350r-12/ Sold for $75k. Rush0024 and PP0001 provided some great comments in the comment section. Definitely seems that the Base R's are very underappreciated/unknown to most.
That price was just insane. A Base R with 265 miles and it goes for 75K? ($78,650 final). What? There is a 2018 R on BaT with 3 days left sitting only 5k lower than this. It's NOT a base and has 10,000 miles. It's like the Base cars are being devalued because it doesn't have a infotainment screen, radio and AC lol. Nevermind the pureness of it or how rare it is.

Wild.

Just wish I had the extra money I would been all over that base R today.
 

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Well, ok
That price was just insane. A Base R with 265 miles and it goes for 75K? ($78,650 final). What? There is a 2018 R on BaT with 3 days left sitting only 5k lower than this. It's NOT a base and has 10,000 miles. It's like the Base cars are being devalued because it doesn't have a infotainment screen, radio and AC lol. Nevermind the pureness of it or how rare it is.

Wild.

Just wish I had the extra money I would been all over that base R today.
Exactly. The whole HEP thing is a bunch of hype. Here you have a very rare car and this is what you see. Bonkers.
 

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That price was just insane. A Base R with 265 miles and it goes for 75K? ($78,650 final). What? There is a 2018 R on BaT with 3 days left sitting only 5k lower than this. It's NOT a base and has 10,000 miles. It's like the Base cars are being devalued because it doesn't have a infotainment screen, radio and AC lol. Nevermind the pureness of it or how rare it is.

Wild.

Just wish I had the extra money I would been all over that base R today.

From my recollection, Bill Ford Jr owns a pre production 2015 GT350R base model. Also, Jamal Hameedi (former chief engineer of SVT) owned for period of time a base model GT350R as well, I believe. This alone adds to the pedigree for me, as well as the rarity for these track focused cars.
 

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From my recollection, Bill Ford Jr owns a pre production 2015 GT350R base model. Also, Jamal Hameedi (former chief engineer of SVT) owned for period of time a base model GT350R as well, I believe. This alone adds to the pedigree for me, as well as the rarity for these track focused cars.
Mines not for sale if that means anything.
 
 




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