Acadia CLOSED For Business (Bangor, Hancock: live, moving, money)

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by Submariner

Fortunately the Cost-Of-Living in Maine is such that allows for so many low-income families to still thrive and be prosperous.

And it makes me happier.

Everything is cheaper here compared to Northern Maryland. And besides that local taxes are a tax credit on the state taxes, instead of a deduction. So you know that you have to pay both of them: when one of them actually deducts itself dollar for dollar off the other one, it can reduce the higher one's state tax percentage to something much smaller than any other state except for NH. This is something that the tax people never seem to get. My local tax will have to more than triple before I will end up paying more than I pay right this very moment in state and local taxes---which is about 2.9 %.

And this is way way less than I paid in Maryland when I had to pay the state tax which was about 5%, + the 2% local tax + the equivalent 2% school tax/property tax for a grand total of 9% taxes at just the local and state level.

[tcrackly]

Originally Posted by Submariner

Fortunately the Cost-Of-Living in Maine is such that allows for so many low-income families to still thrive and be prosperous.

I question the term "thriving" to describe the low income residents of Maine. And " properous" certainly doesn't apply at all.

[Kracer]

An old story about Maine; A reporter asks a Mainer about how he was impacted by the Great Depression. The man answers, 'what depression?'.

[Fern435]

This afternoon, we received an email stating that effective Oct. 8, 2013 (tomorrow) Togus Veterans' Benefits Administration is closing due to additional shutdown decisions made today. Last week, it was stated that Togus would not be closed.

Very classy--leadership has sunk to a new low.

[Zymer]

If the Feds don't want to do their jobs, perhaps it's time they are booted from their posts and replaced.

[roadrat]

From what I've heard the Fed's are closing down private business's on fed land and have even sunk as low as throwing an elderly couple out of there home of 43 years because it sits on fed land, but there is one piece of fed.park land that is still operating, Obama's golf course at camp david is open.


bill

[roadrat]

Originally Posted by Zymer

If the Feds don't want to do their jobs, perhaps it's time they are booted from their posts and replaced.

Sounds good to me. Acadia State Park has a nice ring to it.
We don't need no stinking Fed's around here!



bill

[arctichomesteader]

A very isolated national wildlife refuge back home in VT (the Silvio Conte in the town of Lewis) is evidently locked/gated and there's a federal agent patrolling it. In all the years I've gone hunting there I've never once encountered any federal agent. It's costing them money to guard a wilderness area like that, it costs nothing to leave the gates open. It's pretty clear this has nothing to do with saving money, it's about using people as pawns in a political game. I haven't seen any feds patrolling the Sunkhaze NWR off Stud Mill Rd. in ME yet, but they did waste time and money putting up signs at every parking spot saying it's closed. That's kind of created a dangerous situation for a private log haul road since some people still are going in but are apparently afraid of parking in the parking spots, instead parking right in the road.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Fern435

This afternoon, we received an email stating that effective Oct. 8, 2013 (tomorrow) Togus Veterans' Benefits Administration is closing due to additional shutdown decisions made today. Last week, it was stated that Togus would not be closed.

Very classy--leadership has sunk to a new low.

Which is all in line with what the National Park Service released as being the purpose of the shutdown; to make it as painful on citizens as possible.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by roadrat

From what I've heard the Fed's are closing down private business's on fed land and have even sunk as low as throwing an elderly couple out of there home of 43 years because it sits on fed land, but there is one piece of fed.park land that is still operating, Obama's golf course at camp david is open.


bill

When we were shopping for land to retire on, we looked at many that are private-owned but located inside National Parks.

My understanding of the article you read is that those are home-owners who own their home and land, it is private property. The Park personnel told them to vacate their private property.

There will be major law suits filed.

People will become very wealthy from all of this. Bureaucrats responsible will be transferred to other locations and promoted, based on their level of incompetency. We have seen it before.