I had to share this absolutely electric and insane take on my town’s Facebook page. This is in New Hampshire - no income or sales tax, but higher property taxes:
I would buy a 2nd and 3rd home, one on a lake up north and one in the mountains by a ski area, if it wasn’t for the taxes. The purchase price isn’t even the problem, it’s the taxes.
Taxes are important to pay for sending kids to school and all that, but why should I incur this 3 times for 3 homes? It doesn’t make any sense to have to completely repay all of your bills just because you bought another home.
We should update these laws: you pay the most expensive of your home property taxes, not the sum of all of them. That’s how states do it when you work and live in various states that have income taxes.
Edit - my wife informs me he is a troll, but she thinks he’s sincere here.
The Venn diagram of people that bitch about property taxes and people that want to hang city councillors if their garbage isn’t picked up on time is a circle.
Is this about the deleted posts? I was trying to change some settings to bring back embedded tweets (twixts?), and was testing to see if it worked. It didn’t.
On that topic, the discourse installation is really out of date:
Anyone object to me just clicking that “Click here to upgrade” link and seeing what happens? YOLO and whatnot.
I have spicy takes about California property taxes, but don’t know anything about New Hampshire’s. Or really anything about New Hampshire at all, other than knowing it was Walt’s hideaway in Breaking Bad and the setting of A Prayer for Owen Meany.
I think about the Roman Republic a fair amount. More this year, because I read a Caesar bio and a pop history book on the fall of the republic.
Also if you read much early American history, the founders were obsessed with Greek and Roman shit, so you end up thinking about the Romans a bit that way. Same with Emerson and to a certain extent Thoreau
Also yes the whole society was racist and war-mongering, but it was an early attempt at a republic-ish system of government over a diverse populace, with an intent to spread the power around. There could be some lessons for the US as we try to hold together a large country with disparate (and batshit crazy) factions.
I lean towards splitting the country up, but that is unlikely to happen and is another kettle of fish
Some of the themes might break. Discourse Grey [optimal imo], Discourse Light, and Discourse Dark should continue to work because they’re standard Discourse.
We have a number of blankets we are going to replace. They are in good condition but the reason we are replacing them is they have dog hair we can’t remove (easily enough to make it worth it).
We are debating if we can give them to the homeless?
