If somebody can't be bothered to say what he actually means (let alone mean what he says) then I can't be bothered to not patronize and condescend him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you live in Portsmouth because you work in Portsmouth, then you're pouring money down the drain.
This is very simple economics and I am exasperated that you people refuse to grasp it.

To wit:

The best place to put most types of businesses that use human labor to manufacture things is near as many prospective employees as possible; i.e. in a centralized location. The best place to put a business that provides sales and/or service to visiting customers, is near as many prospective customers as possible; i.e. in a centralized high-density location.

Therefore, centralized high-density locations (i.e. cities and large towns) are extremely valuable for retail, industrial and other commercial uses.

The status quo is that zoning, parking minimums and other such local corruption, all but prohibit building any more apartments atop (e.g.) retail buildings. Therefore using any land in a centralized high-density location for residential purpose, excludes that land from extremely valuable retail or industrial use for which developers will likely pay very handsomely. The only reason the owner of such land would not want to sell to said developers, is if she can find some way to convince some residents to rent from her at an exorbitant price.

I imagine there are some people willing to pay that price; otherwise Portsmouth's population would be zero.

For the rest of us who want to earn a profit from life, the best place to put our residence is in a location which is as decentralized and low-density as possible, within a certain commute distance of one or more large towns whose employers can compete for our services.

(And yes, automobiles are the only way to extend commute distance such that multiple large towns are reachable from the same corner of bumfsck nowhere. Deal with it.)

Well, what are you waiting for?

"Reverse" racism is still just racism.

I hope a hospital keeps you alive as long as inhumanely possible while your brain rots away from dementia.

A headshot is only quick and painless if it destroys the brainstem. That is a relatively small target that is easily missed. (And hollow-point bullets don't make the task any easier because the brainstem is not surrounded by enough tissue to make an incoming hollow-point bullet expand significantly.)

If the brainstem is missed...

Without the frontal lobes the brain can still survive; ask Phineas Gage.
Without the upper respiratory tract, there is the risk that the body (and brain) can still survive via artificial life support if the EMTs' attention is drawn too quickly.

You should encourage them to find the ridiculous bloat in the town budget and Slash It™ in the meeting next year. That will solve their property-tax problem, if they want it to be solved.

It's much better for you if you want higher taxes. The OP is different from you.

Public school. These figures are only telling us about public school.

... that's backwards. A rhetorical question is one to which the asker does have an answer in mind.

I don't have one. It's not a rhetorical question or something.

No, the State requiring us to have our own vehicles inspected is also a crock of shit. Driving a shitbox without knowing how to maintain control of it is dangerous to, you guessed it, the driver. School buses, and background-checks of the drivers thereof, are a non sequitur in multiple ways.

Inspection (by which I mean the State-mandated inspection of private vehicles) is nothing more than a racket for the State and some mechanic cronies.

What else - other than attempting repair of the fused disks even if it meant guinea-pigging for medical experiments, or at least attempting to control the length of time the fused disks are consciously experienced - could possibly be the objective in life of a person with fused disks?

EDIT: you should be ashamed of yourselves. Downvoting questions instead of answering them.

I cannot fathom the audacity that these people have, that just talking will repair physical injuries. Let alone repair fused disks.

No, getting rid of the War on Drugs police-state is the whole reason for legalizing it. As long as there is an illegal black market for police to go after (whether because the plant is entirely illegal or because smuggling it is cheaper than paying the taxes and regulations), the mission is not accomplished. Ask California and New York. (And contrast Colorado, who headed this issue off mostly correctly.)

tl;dr: tl;dw: outside the Interstate Highway System and similar highways, driving >25mph anyplace is technically unsafe because once in awhile people fail to maintain awareness of their surroundings and control of their vehicle; but driving >25mph is also how people get from home to work and back, and do work in between, all in a single day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Who does the government pay for all that work? Private contractors. Government is just a pointless inefficient monopolistic middleman that could just as well be cut out.

no u

Electricity is energy. Taxation is just theft. That is the difference.

Employees of one business use their wages as customers of other businesses. Those other businesses have to pay for their unemployment taxes via slightly higher prices, diluting the purchasing power of those employees.

One transaction at a time, everyone in the economy pays taxes, directly and indirectly.

And where do you think they get that money from?

(Hint: prices. Of everything.)

That by definition means you stole from me (and from everyone else who remained solvent for the past three years and was subject to NH state taxation). The least you can do is repay it with restitution.

No, because you don't. Fascism is government supremacy and direction of the nominally-privately-owned means of production. Energizing the populace via hatred of an ethnic minority was Hitler's unique twist on it - contrast Mussolini and Franco.

China is practically fascist today, and has been transitioning in that direction ever since Mao's democidal failures taught them the same lesson that Hitler learned by reading the news from Lenin's Russia - communism is mortally inefficient because it centralizes not just the big goals like a dictator wants to, but also all of the tiny little decisions that are easily made on-the-ground in a decentralized capitalistic manner. The United States, meanwhile, has been fascist ever since the New Deal - we became the monster we sought to destroy.

As for more recent history ... ever since the end of the Occupy movement, the biggest and most-governmentally-controlled corporations, i.e. the fascist machine, have pushed the message of woke-ism, and that is the very same message Antifa shouted as they looted minority-owned small businesses back in 2020.

Now you understand why I think the name of "Antifa" is 100% ironic.