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Sorry should have been more concise.

If I buy one now, I pay $150 for a cheap saw without the tech.

I can of course buy a saw-stop for $1000 right now.

If I wait a year or so, this legislation would probably allow me to get a saw-stop capable saw for $450ish, but it's a gamble, because they COULD be over $1000. We don't know.

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Maybe think about going with the cheap table saw and spending the remainder of the money to get a nice track saw.

Of course, there are some things that you really do need a table saw for, but track saws are amazing and inherently safer in comparison to a table saw.

Particularly for sheet goods, I’ll never use anything but a track saw at this point.

This has been my particular position for a long time now. We don't need safer table saws. If you want a safe table saw, just use a different type of saw.

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