My husband and I took the tax penalty for 2021 and we will take it again for 2022. We had to pay $1500 for the 2021 penalty. We were hoping to make monthly payments but they charge a HUGE interest rate. First month we sent $100 and they charged us $64 in interest the next month. Ended up putting it on a credit card and then transferred that balance to another card offering 0% for 12 months. The calculations you mention are the same for us - deductibles are out of control. Husband did sign up for insurance for himself for 2023 - premiums are $50 a month for him, BUT if he adds me to the plan, it is $400 a month to cover me. When I checked with the Health Connector the payments for me are also $400 a month. We cannot afford this. Healthcare is such a ripoff and I am pissed that we live in 1 of only 5 STATES that pull this penalty crap.

Same

HOW??????Are they trying to make that place worse? That place needed double the staff hours. Do they have someone filling in the pharmacy at night when its closed?

Source: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/open-burning-safety

"Outdoor cooking is allowed year-round in all communities and is not subject to open burning limits."

and

"Fire pits have become popular in recent years. But unless they are being used for cooking, they are subject to the MassDEP open burning regulation. If you do use a fire pit for cooking, the fire must be:
Kept to a reasonable size
Located away from combustible materials
Contained in a non-flammable enclosure, and
Tended by someone who is 18 years of age or older. "

and

"Some cities and towns regulate, limit or prohibit the use of chimineas, fire pits and outdoor fireplaces. To find out if your community has specific requirements, contact your local fire department."

Urban sprawl is a logical fallacy people tell themselves in order to deny Black people lines of credit to purchase homes. Humans have lived in cities since antiquity - Nubia, Egypt, Sumeri, Indus River, Cararabe, Olmec. Living in a city has a lower ecological impact for a number of reasons but primarily because people live closer together. The less space between your house and mine, the more space for nature to do her thing. Climate change and ecological balance affect everyone because they are a part of the human condition. In order to survive climate change, more people are moving to cities globally. Any policy that doesn’t rationally embrace those trends, is going to swim against a global storm.

Pisa Pizza in Malden. Been going there since it opened. Their sauce and cheese is so good that I never get any toppings. I usually go for the half-pan pizza but their regular thin crust cheese pizza is second to none. Also 2 for 1 on Tuesdays!

sorry, but I ain't holding off for any reason. IF that federal debt is defaulted on, I'm getting paid before it happens.

CRUST being on there for Pittsfield is really fucking weird. They're not even the best pizza on that street. I'll take Teddy's over them every day of the week. Papa Joe's is the best pizza that I've had here in Pittsfield.

Without a criminal or civil conviction they should absolutely be entitled to keep their gains from an allegedly illicit activity

Pino’s in Cleveland Circle

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No, I’m suggesting that you don’t understand how decisions on what to work on are made in large business environments. This is true both for government agencies and large corporations. It’s why agility in business is something business schools study, and why many businesses die because they don’t react fast enough.

Look, the IRS has no obligation to pro-actively decide every conceivable case of state law interaction with federal law. It’s not enough that they be aware of all these special cases. Some one or group of people had to make a decision that these were more important to work on than all the other things they had already committed to work on before the states started doing this. Now I don’t know what their other priorities were at the time. So I can’t argue that they should have known this was or was not important enough to preempt other work. And neither can you. Large organizations, especially those that mostly work around a fixed calendar of work, can’t be expected to make every turn on a dime decision quickly and correctly.

Over 80. Otherwise they will leave you alone. That’s why people get mad when there is somebody going 70 in the passing lane and never moving over.

Idc Papa Gino’s cheese pizza is one of the best.

Bout time.....fear of losing money keeps the speeders in check....although how fast do you need to be going to get pulled over....I flinch at doing 68 in a 65 and seeing a trooper..

Paramount, Holyoke

Paramount!

Since George Floyd, Covid, Antifa, and etc etc., Police all over the country have been laying low. Can you blame them? Well, things have got out of hand and people are dying on the highway and streets in droves. The powers to be would rather save gas and have the troops park on the side of the road like scare crows. It doesn't work. Things are out of control. You better knock off the BS. You know who you are. Smoky is ready to rumble. Drive safely.

>The problem is no one wants to work like that.

Seems unlikely you're special.

>You can complain

Says an expert in the craft.

>You can hate me for it

Your "haters" exist largely in your head.

>Stop buying vaporizers and vaporizer accessories.

Probably for the best if you kept your arguments with them there, at least they might have a chance of knowing WTF you're rambling on about.

Garden Pizza in Milford makes a good pizza. If you want your pizza a little greasier, there's also Pizza 85.

If you want really good stuff and are willing to pay a bit of a premium, Prezzo's and Pepperoncini's also make some damn good pies. All of these are in Milford.

Well I guess my next question would be if we are so low in spending, then why isn’t their room for improvement in terms of spending on more police to patrol places that are known for high crime? with more emphasis on public spaces. I don’t disagree with much of anything you said.

Also maybe give more leeway to home and business owners to protect their property. Right now if someone breaks into my house or business and gets hurt while trespassing I get sued for something I had no control of. Meanwhile if they are their to attack, I’m suppose to runaway and am not allowed to protect myself. All the current system does in my eyes is incentivizes crime on personal property and places all the blame on the owner.

to your point OP, on Monday and Tuesday I saw a bunch on 128 between Newton and the 95s split (Canton?)… it seems like they have stepped up enforcement measures this week for whatever the reason.

You made my day!!

If I made these errors in my nursing practice there would be consequences.

We have reasonable support systems for low income families, reasonable infrastructure (deff room for improvement tho), a well educated population, support for drug addicts and generally a being wealthier state as a whole all help. Mass is also lacking the pure destitute poverty seen in other states, and people who have their basic needs meet are generally less likely to turn to crime.

In fact we manage to be one of the safest states while ranking 42nd in per capita spending on police. I think if you want to go down this road its on you to prove why more police power and funding is the answer.