Bank assessments or city assessments? City assessments are very typically below market sale rate (which is what bank assessments look at).

You can literally click on each year’s financial statement within that link for the data, and it links to the State of NH Dept of Rev and Economic Development P&L sheet. Its using official state/public data. Not sure what other source could/would even be considered more trustworthy.

You don’t want to trust that? What data source would you trust then?

So the link provided above to you isn’t enough to show that Cannon loses money annually? The link from the Taxpayers of Cannon? It’s missing the previous 6 years of data, but considering cannon shows an operating loss of $9M over the course of time here, I suspect they continue to lose money.

This guy gets it. Felger and Mazz are personalities that play a certain character on the show. They stick to it because they have strong ratings (very strong). Both very likely pull in north of $1M annually from the show + endorsements.

Why would you change if that’s what brings home the bacon?

Easy to understand. The point is there is no reason to wait. You can solve the problem locally. We do t have to sit back and wait for Washington to do everything for us.

It’s not being solved locally here because democrats equally don’t want to solve it. This isn’t a republican exclusive thing.

Pepsi employs over 100k people in the US, and is laying off hundreds. Less than 1% of their headcount.

An enterprise organization has 5-10% turnover monthly anyway.

Pepsi was a click bait headline.

Very true. And the layoffs you hear about in the news are sensationalized for clicks.

Meta lays off 12k (whoa scary!) but fail to tell you they over hired this year but more than 12k, so they still grew their staff.

Many layoffs in the news are “right sizing” back to the beginning of 2022 levels.

I’m sure (at least hope) our reps are trying.

Unfortunately it isn’t being done, at least not well, at the federal level.

A big difference being trump eventually made asylum seekers stay in Mexico. Biden allows them to stay here (which I’ll note I agree with).

The difference in that policy made the crossings explode, however. We have as many asylum seekers now, in a 5 week span, that we would see annually before.

You can’t safely accommodate the vast increase in numbers in one area (the boarder).

Your energy should be spent directed at our state officials to prepare and welcome migrants here. All states should do it, because that’s what’s going to eventually happen anyway.

Moving migrants into housing, offering the kids places in our schools, giving them access to our healthcare to a level they have never had the opportunity to receive. Finding food sources for them. This is not the same.

Unless you are suggesting this is the end goal of the Biden administration. In which case, you should start demanding answers from our elected leaders.

I couldn’t tell you why they don’t alert the towns. We can both agree that a simple phone call would go a long way.

My guess is that a lot of towns would ask for them not to come here because of a lack of resources. Problem is that, where they are coming from, there are also a lack of resources.

I’m only stating the problems that exist.

You made an ignorant statement. To even compare what is happening now to what happened to them is ridiculous. And shows a lack of understanding as to what it’s like at our boarder for these asylum seekers.

Can agree on that.

But what Florida did is different than what ICE is doing with transporting. There is an attempt to find them a landing ground (as in housing, not just an airport runway)

For one, I am Jewish with a grandfather who was in a work camp for 4 years and lost his whole family other than a sister… so fuck off with your comparison.

And two - I didn’t say for them not to come at all. Just that they themselves had the choice knowing there are no guarantees of housing, food, etc once here.

And three - are you that mad that our government is trying to find better living opportunities for them? Do you really prefer they struggle to find it on their own?

You should really research the conditions in these boarder towns.

They have Mass populations of homeless boarder crossers, living in conditions that would make Mass/Cass look upscale. Terrible violent crime to deal with, etc.

They are getting moved because they need to be. It’s also in their own best interest.

They also do not have to come here at all (as in cross the boarder), which is a choice they themselves made.

Our govt doesn’t just have millions of unoccupied govt housing facilities vacant and ready for this.

Where they are typically can’t handle them. Keep in mind there will be over 3 million boarder crossers into the US this year.

They can’t all stay in the boarder states - they simply don’t have the capacity to add/keep that many people in shelters, fed, etc.

It’s not just Florida and Texas governors moving these people around. Our federal govt is doing it in huge volumes.

Taxes on alcohol are to take advantage of transaction volume for revenue purposes. Essentially, there’s a ton of money to be had because alcohol sales are so common.

If you want sugary drinks taxed to deter use, for health reasons, you should be making the same argument for alcohol to be taxed at an increased level to deter (for health reasons).