The exemption is around $2.400 if I can recall. So basically unless you have a lot of money in corporate bonds (I’m guessing treasuries are exempt from I&D tax but don’t quote me on it) or a lot of stock that pays out high dividends, you’re probably not going to owe anything. You might be able to get around it if you get dividends in the form of stock instead of cash but I honestly don’t know.

On the bright side we have no income or sales taxes, and we’re eliminating interest and dividends tax in the next few years. If you’re into guns, our gun laws are very relaxed compared to other New England states (except for Maine, their laws are also very relaxed). On top of this we’re one of the safest states in the US in terms of violent crime.

At this post I’d just give it up because of how stupid high interest rates are. My parents got lucky and were able to find a house in 2021 (we used to live in Mass), but it took them around a year of looking and bidding.

Derry got a minimum of 14 inches.

It’s snowing here in Derry, it looks like light fluffy stuff but it’s falling steadily. I’m a little sad my school in Mass hasn’t cancelled, I was really hoping for a cancellation based on yesterday’s SHIT report from the Hillbilly Weatherman.

Here’s how I think this state should be run; staying the fuck out of the doctor’s office, staying out of the classroom, not punishing people for smoking weed, staying out of people’s gun safes, and having minimal taxation. Live free or fucking die.

It’s even a problem in MA, my mom works in a hospital in the Boston area and they’ve been putting psych patients on her floor for years because they have no where else to put them.

That’s America for you, we don’t care about or fix things until a catastrophic failure (take for example; COVID, the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008, I could go on and on but I’ll stop here). I love this country but procrastination and neglecting issues until they’re big problems is probably one of the worst characteristics we have as a nation.

You should be allowed to carry a gun if you want to, I have no issues with current state laws considering how low our homicide rate is (it’s the lowest in the country). At the same time, it is against federal law to posses a firearm if you’ve been convicted of a felony unless you have it expunged. When you buy a gun at a dealer they ask you on the 4473 (background check form) if you’ve been convicted of a felony or domestic violence. If you lie on the form about anything, you’re committing a felony and you’d be dumb to think they won’t find out.

They ask on a 4473 if you’ve been convicted of a felony, if you lie on that form it is a felony and you will go to prison.

Dealers won’t sell to you if you’re a user of marijuana. When you fill out ATF form 4473 (a background check form), they ask if you use or abuse any illicit substances, and they specifically state that marijuana is federally illegal. If you lie and buy a gun anyways and they find out, you’ve committed a felony.

I saw somewhere that the railroad offered $25k in total for compensation, which is around $5 for each effected individual/household (not sure which). I honestly hope that residents sue them over this because there will be health effects down the line.

If it was federally legal they probably would.

I personally don’t like the idea of picking someone to do work for you based on a demographic or characteristic, but then again it’s not my place to tell anyone what to do and at the end of the day you should feel comfortable with whoever you’re inviting into your house to do work for you to be respectful towards you. So I can understand why OP is being specific about who she wants to hire if she’s had problems with guys in the past, but as others have said it’s going to be hard to fit those criteria if labor in these trades is already in short supply so she may not much of a choice if she needs to work done ASAP.

I’d say the reason we have a lot of suicides involving firearms in this country is because people think you lose your gun rights if you’re admitted to a psych hospital or any facility to seek mental health treatment. The key thing is that you have to be involuntarily committed, meaning if you go willingly, you’re probably going to be fine when it comes to maintaining your rights.

What company is it? (Enlighten me I honestly have no clue).

Unfortunately you’re probably right :/ . Politics suck.

You’re not wrong, I do know Raytheon has a few facilities in MA and Lockheed Martin has a big one in NY state.

I’m more right leaning but I don’t talk about them unless I’m comfortable disclosing that information to a certain person. I feel like it’s just a cultural thing in the Northeast to just not tell anyone because owning a gun isn’t as socially acceptable as it is in other parts of the country (not saying it’s unacceptable to own one, just that you’re more likely to get shit for it).

We do have that big dick energy though

Believe it or not, AR-15’s and rifles and in general make up a small percentage of homicides, handguns make up the majority of homicides in FBI statistics. You’re also around 5 times more likely to be stabbed to death then killed with a rifle. As a gun owner myself, I think the problem causing most violent crime is mental health and socioeconomic problems, especially considering the fact that cities tend to have a lot more homicides then rural areas (see table 8).. Also considering the 1994-2004 assault weapons ban was found to have mixed results. One of the things noted in this article states that because there was a grandfather clause, it made guns grandfathered in much more expensive (this happened with machine guns when the registry closed in 1986, they now range in price from $9k-$300k depending on what you’re looking at) and thus less accessible to criminals, so they ended up turning to semi autos that weren’t banned. Instead of arguing over whether a certain gun should or shouldn’t be legal, I’d say the best thing our nation could do is find a solution that both sides would agree to, specifically Group Violence Intvention programs (aka Community Violence Intervention programs). Programs such as these have actually been proven to reduce violent crime and crimes involving firearms as much as 60%. I myself support these programs being implemented and I’d bet the majority of gun owners would as well considering that no rights are being infringed, no guns are being banned, violent crime is being reduced and a significant number of lives are being saved.

Little do they know we have the most machine guns per capita lmao. We have 7.47 registered machine guns per 1000 people and on top of that we have the lowest homicide rate in the country.

You mean massholes?

Unless it’s a roundabout or rotary, in that case continue with the usual free-for-all.

It should be at least $2,000 per violation imo.