[PAR35]

John Deere used to be the worst offender in keeping folks from servicing their own equipment. A huge combine breaks down? No problem. Just bring it back to the dealer (who may be hundreds of miles away) and drop it off for a quick change-out of the broken part and updating the software to recognize the new part. Instead of getting the part shipped to you to bolt into place.

Free market folks will flame me for this, but I do support ‘Right to Repair’ legislation. I’m a main street conservative, not a Wall Street conservative.

[Dr. Sivana]

Free market folks will flame me for this, but I do support ‘Right to Repair’ legislation.

Intellectual property laws are inherently arbitrary. Some libertarians would not recognize them as free market.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Free market folks will flame me for this, but I do support ‘Right to Repair’ legislation.

What is Anti-free market about, "you bought it, you own it, you can do what you want with it?"

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I agree. The corporate scum shouldn’t be able to hold your equipment hostage from thousands of miles away.

[Hot Tabasco]

The NW Kansas farmer whose land we used to hunt pheasants, had a barn filled with all kinds of maintenance equipment, including welding equipment, used to repair all has farm tractors and such. .

Their philosophy out there was, if society broke down and the country went to hell, they could carry on as if nothing happened.

They grow their own and they can fix their own.