I've thought about this before, but reading this with my morning coffee reminded me of the huge disconnect between urban Southern NH and the mostly rural rest of the state. The only way Manchester is "the heart of central New Hampshire" is if you think Concord is the northern extreme of the state. I know the idea of #NHexit is popular in some circles (NH leaving the USA and becoming it's own nation) but that's not going to happen. But hear me out. Our neighbors in Maine have the same issue. So here's my plan. Coos, Carroll and Grafton counties split off from the rest of the state. Maybe toss in the northern halves of Sullivan and Belknap counties too. That's roughly dividing the state in half by area. Sounds pretty fair to me. Northern NH and northern ME merge together and become the new New Hampshire, and Southern NH and southern ME merge to become the new ME. I'm not married to the names, I am just getting tired of people who chose to live on top of each other trying to change zoning so they can expand into the areas where people just want to be left the fuck alone. Flip em if ya want so @FreeStateNH doesn't have to change their @ name.

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Damn I love this state! #603Life

What the hell lancaster! A yes queen's, no Kings protest, really?

Maine: 48th. New Hampshire: 13th. Same region. Same size. Completely different result! Here's the difference: New Hampshire has no income tax, electricity rates that aren't propped up by solar mandates, and their state budget stays within its means. It's not growing 65% in seven years. Meanwhile... Augusta Democrats raised our top income tax rate to more than 9% this year. Our electricity rates are at least double comparable rural states because Augusta decided ratepayers should subsidize large solar developers. And our state budget is approaching $12 billion. Totally unsustainable. The gap between 13th and 48th is NOT a coincidence. It's a policy gap. And Governor Mills and Augusta Democrats built it ‒ one tax hike, one solar subsidy, one budget increase at a time. This MUST change.

She’s right. It’s that easy. If only there was an entire career field dedicated to financial statements. They could have Generally Accepted Principles, and there could be Certified Public ones. Maybe there could even be a college degree for it, and government agencies with rules about their work. And then based on that investors would decide what they thought the stock was actually worth paying for. If only…. Alas, only this brilliant super genius financial wizard has got it all figured out. Seriously though, sometimes I wonder how much easier it would be to go through life this oblivious. Like a fucking goldfish.

These assholes just introduced the "HEAR Act", a confiscation scheme to ban millions of suppressors currently owned by law-abiding Americans. They’ll never stop pushing for gun control, and we must never stop fighting back.

Hello Senator.... This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say . "Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary." That is quite an achievement. In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress. It has been a long time since you held a private sector job. AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot. During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike. And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector. You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged. But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are. We would never know otherwise.

What the fuck, what MONEY? What money are these AIs hoarding? You're just talking about taxing people, lady! All taxes are paid by people!

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

The year is 1949. The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain. The year is 1956. Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over. The year is 1966. A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots. The year is 1979. Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005. The year is 1985. Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning. The year is 1992. There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with. So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now. Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one. It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

It is astoundingly bizarre how many people jump to seize the resources of a genius who generates many trillions of dollars of value for human society, so they can give it to human locusts who consume ALL and contribute NOTHING.

I know, right? If only he employed, say, 100k people. If only he revitalized a dead auto factory in Fremont, California and made cars there, again? If only he invented a product to allow someone to get Internet access anywhere on the planet, affordably? If only he proved that electric cars were something people wanted, helping to reduce pollution? If only he revitalized American excellence in space, allowing us to not rely on Russia for orbital boosting?

THIS! Property taxes are one of the only taxes you and your neighbors can realistically change, which is why I will always prefer them over state taxes (and before someone comes at me: yes, I do know there is a county/state portion included in them). The thing is, people these days are fucking lazy (and getting lazier by the generation). They want what they want, but they don't want to have to actually do the work themselves to achieve it. They want someone else to do it for them.

Not quite. Right now he's just a Lame Duck senator. At least his final election leaves him with a mention in the political history books: "Worst primary loss for an incumbent senator in a head-to-head race in 50 years." He lost to @KenPaxtonTX by a whopping 28 points! PS: Kudos to @ScottPresler for taking the high road. The man is a class act.