(September 16, 2014 at 5:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You run a small machine shop Deist?Not exactly. We make dental prosthesis. We mostly specialize in the removable kind. Hope you never need our services.
If you do, you may want to ask your dentist where the crown, bridge, denture, partial, etc. are made and if you can get a written assurance that the appliance is made in America. You'd think all the lead in toys from China would discourage the industry from putting things made in China in the human mouth but no. Some dentists really do care, no matter how cheap the products from China may be, and have asked me for written assurances that none of my prosthesis are outsourced. Some don't. And some are squeezed so hard by their insurance companies that they are forced to.
Things are getting better. New state regulations have just been implemented requiring all dental laboratories to inform their dentist clients where the prosthetic they order is made. Before now, the lab could outsource it and the dentist would be none the wiser, possibly placing lead-infested crowns in his/her patient's mouths and having no idea.
To what extent this new law will be enforced remains to be seen but it's a step in the right direction. To the best of my knowledge, the dentist is not yet under any such obligations to inform the patient. I think it no small irony that I can buy a t-shirt from Wal-Mart and know where it was made but get a crown cemented into your mouth and you have no idea. If protectionism is out of the question, at least full disclosure should be required, both for the dentist and the patient.
We have enjoyed an upswing in our business in recent months, picking up a few new clients. I'm not sure if my religious devotion (pardon the metaphor) to outsourcing nothing is paying off but I've been getting a lot more questions lately about that.
Quote:Property taxes last year were only paid by shedding property (which is also my livelihood).The government is funny that way. Even when your property can't sell and you can't get a loan on it, they still want the full tax value. Even though my property didn't sell at $169K, the government still insisted on taxing my property at the original $277K sale price.
I appealed the evaluation, arguing that if the property didn't sell at $168K, it couldn't be worth that much. They only agreed to lower the taxable value to $235K, which makes no sense but maybe I should be thankful they budged at all.
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