The joke is that if you live in New Hampshire and commute to Boston your overall tax burden and cost of living ends up higher than it would have been if you just stayed in "Taxachusetts".

Buy your beer in NH, return your bottles in Maine, hell that's profit!

No, your co-workers from New Hampshire are brain washed right wing idiots with one (bad) joke.

Some taxes in Maine are higher than in NH (income, general sales). Other taxes are higher in NH (property taxes especially, but also "rooms and meals"). Overall, they end up tying out pretty similar depending on how exactly you do the math and what you do or don't include.

The classic joke is the guy who works in Boston but moves to NH for lower taxes. He gets wrecked because he then has to pay both MA income tax and NH property tax.

Yeah that's a scam, or just someone you really dont want to be your landlord.

Break out the old fatsos you won't regret it I'm tellin you

Donnie says the forecast is for it to be DEEP up at the ski hill der bub.

Pine Tree Power would be able to use it's buying power on behalf of ratepayers and not foreign shareholders.

Says someone who's never heard of the TVA or the Bureau of Reclamation.

It's currently a state sanctioned monopoly. Neither CMP nor Versant (owned by the same foreign conglomerate) have any free market competition. Their profits are purely rent-seeking, rather than based on success in a competitive market.

Instead of sending that unearned profit to an overseas conglomerate, we could keep it in Maine - and return that profit to taxpayers in the form of lower rates and better service over time.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/24/energy-giants-spending-millions-block-states-effort-create-consumer-owned-utility

"Maine Energy Progress" is a dark money political spending org funded entirely by Central Maine Power's parent company.

They are opposing the "Pine Tree Power" referendum which would replace the foreign-owned utility company with a taxpayer-owned utility.

They are spending your money to lie to you.

You can just say it was burned down in a suspected arson without editorializing and revealing yourself to be a grouchy asshole who is allergic to fun.

This is wonderful to hear. It's snowing pretty hard in Portland and totals here aren't far off that, but it's pretty close to freezing and definitely got some moisture in it

Both of mine are higher in the summer.

Precisely.

Thanks asshole. The point is that it's an unfamiliar vehicle, and it's easy not to notice that the lights are 1 click off where they should be. It's poor design.

I agree that it's poor design. This happens to me sometimes when driving my mom's car. It has a DRL mode that is right next to "Auto" on the dial, and at twilight or in the rain it's hard to tell that your full headlights aren't on.

The whyte peepo is strong in this one

My neighbor is in my phone as "Fuckin Mike" because his standard greeting is the finger

They let me get as far as giving them my credit card. Tough times I guess, sorry friend.

Enterprise has a 12 passenger van available in Portland for $129/day.

His username translates to "shitstain" which seems fairly spot on.

One of my friends from high school is married to an Aubuchon

Maine is a very white state. That is not an inherently good or bad thing - it just is.

A quick Google search before moving cross country might have told you that, if it was going to be a problem for you, as it clearly is.

"Only Mexicans can make tacos" is racist, full stop. Enough. You're digging a hole.

You're a snobby essentialist asshole and we don't like that around here