Muddyshutter

@TheMaineWire All we need to do is tax the billionaires more and none of this will be a problem.

A Brighter Heights Home Care facility in Westford. This agency billed MaineCare for $4,721,479.03 in 2025.

@RabidCatz Taking more money from Maine taxpayers and giving it to politicians will not solve a single issue in Maine. Been there, done that. Time for a change.

Why are Democrats pushing taxing millionaires instead of actually fixing the problem of fraud. Will Troy Jackson tax the people who are paying for his political run right now. I highly doubt it

@katagious2 Stop paying solar farms *retail* rates for electricity, they should be selling to the grid at wholesale. Stop dumping expensive green experimental energy projects on the backs of Mainers. We need a change from this heavy-handed dictatorship style, not more of it.

He's blowing hot air up Mainer's skirts. 1. This will never happen, it would require countrywide takeover of private industry. 2. If it did, the results would be rolling brownouts & blackouts across the U.S. & Maine would be one of the most vulnerable due to weather. Stupidity.

"The persistent claim that wind and solar are the cheapest form of generation makes for an effective talking point, but it does not hold up when customers pay their bills." Rep. Reagan Paul is pushing the Maine DOE to examine and publish the true costs of Maine’s green energy push. According to Paul, the DOE energy cost assessments often quoted in policy fail to include a variety of expenses that lead to rising energy costs for Maine consumers. These costs, often referred to as “system effects” include the costs of compensating for low effective capacity, increased maintenance costs, energy grid upgrades required by intermittent energy production, additional transmission infrastructure, and battery replacements. While those costs have a very real impact for Maine ratepayers, they do not factor into data cited by left-wing lawmakers, who claim that green energy sources like solar and wind are cheap and effective. “These are real costs showing up in your electric bill right now — often buried in ‘public policy’ charges, stranded costs, shifting accounting definitions, or spread across ratepayers so politicians can continue claiming wind and solar are ‘cheap,'” said Paul in a social media post. The letter from Paul requests that the DOE issue guidance to affirm the importance of evaluating the hidden costs to assist lawmakers in making informed energy policy decisions. Paul also highlighted the recently passed “climate superfund” bill that will use hundreds of thousands of dollars to retroactively come up with a cost to associate with greenhouse gas emissions going back to 1995.

@grahamformaine "Susan Collins will run her campaign on personal attacks. I'm running my campaign on what I'll actually do in the Senate." -GP

Pete Hegseth went in front of an Appropriations subcommittee today. Susan Collins is Appropriations Chair. She did not ask him even ONE question about Iran. Spineless. Susan Collins is a spineless Senator who refuses to stand up for working Mainers being crushed by costs.

@RepReaganPaul My brain is not braining. NOT finding feces *dampened* their love? Is that supposed to say 'deepened' or am I missing the joke?

Babylon Bee or Bangor Daily News? One writes ridiculous jokes on purpose. The other has simply become the joke. This is actual ‘news’ from the Bangor Daily News — treating a literal crap show as heartwarming proof that Maine is paradise. Most of us already know it — but for the few holdouts still treating the Bangor Daily News as serious journalism: when your paper has to spin literal human feces on a doorstep into a heartwarming relocation success story, it’s time to admit reality and maybe stop taking them seriously as journalism.

🚨 Maine Democrats can’t keep lying to Mainers about why your electric bills are exploding. Even states that PRODUCE their own natural gas are still seeing massive electricity price increases tied to wind and solar expansion. That completely destroys the narrative that natural gas alone is responsible for skyrocketing electric bills. In Maine, the problem is even worse — because politicians helped create the natural gas constraints themselves by strangling pipeline expansion and blocking reliable energy infrastructure for years. Now they want to pretend they’re the champions of “energy affordability” while pushing the very policies driving costs through the roof:⚡ Wind and solar integration costs⚡ Massive transmission buildouts⚡ Grid balancing costs⚡ Backup generation requirements⚡ Battery storage mandates⚡ Reliability market pressures Mainers are being forced to bankroll an expensive political energy agenda — and no amount of finger-pointing at natural gas can hide that reality forever. The truth is simple:⚠️ You cannot make energy less reliable, shut down dependable generation, force intermittent power onto the grid, and expect rates to go DOWN. Read more here: mackinac.org/blog/2026/pric…

@txgermanbre There's no need to hide behind words like 'burden' and 'proportionally', what you actually mean is: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" The teacher here is free to create their own Tesla and reap the "asset appreciation" if they have the ability.

“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden. A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation. And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale. Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely. That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation. People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved. Their companies rely on: public roads public courts public contract enforcement public utilities public universities public research grants public internet infrastructure public IP law public military-protected trade routes public education systems producing labor The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework. And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law. The real debate is simple: Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations? That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.

@mitchellvii Biological androids makes more sense.

Why would space travellers capable of interstellar travel be biologicals at all? Wouldn't androids make more sense? No food, no water, no life support required.

@MetamateDaz When I see my government giving Billions of our tax dollars to things like fraudulent day cares that don't exist, I realize that they don't need a single dollar more from anyone making any amount of money.

Most people don't realize but Americans only pay Social Security taxes on income under $184,500. What that means is anyone that makes over that stops paying Social Security at $184,501. If the Social Security earnings cap were removed they would have enough money for universal health care.

Activist: "You can graze sheep underneath solar panels. It's called agrivoltaics." Farmer: "I've read the brochures." Activist: "Best of both worlds." Farmer: "The panels shade the sward. Productive species die back. What grows is what tolerates shade and compaction. Sheep won't finish on it." Activist: "But the trials show it works." Farmer: "The trials run three years and measure ewe presence. Not lamb growth rates. Not finishing weights. Not what the soil looks like in year fifteen." Activist: "It's still better than nothing." Farmer: "It's a 30% stocking rate, a steel frame I can't plough around, panel-cleaning chemicals running into the watercourse, and a 40-year lease I can't break." Activist: "But you're getting energy AND lamb." Farmer: "I'm getting a third of the lamb, a maintenance contract, and a field my grandson can't farm." Activist: "You're being negative." Farmer: "I'm watching a thousand-year-old way of feeding people get traded for twenty-five years of subsidised electricity. Negative would be the polite word."

@JonathanBushME I'm only interested in hearing specifically what you are going to do for Maine. This kind of BS gets you nowhere with me. The king of crapping on other people will not be getting my vote.

🦗CRICKETS 🦗 It’s been 24 hours since I challenged Bobby Charles to show up to tonight’s WGME/BDN debate. So far, we’ve only heard crickets. Bobby, it’s not too late — come tell Mainers why you think we need a lobbyist as our governor! WGME, 7pm tonight. Let’s see if he shows, folks.

@BostonMassUSA 'cha need, bub?

does new england have a polite expression for "you clearly want something specific from me, please tell me what it is" ?

@Bunny_ngl Hell isn't Satan's cave where he hangs out and tortures people. It's a place prepared for his punishment. This has to be one of the greatest misunderstandings of Biblical teachings. This and people become angels when they die.

Why will Satan torture people in hell for disobeying the same God he disobeyed ?

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@SteveDeaceShow I'm going to go out on a limb here and say we probably don't know everything about physics and quantum mechanics yet.

Something to know in advance of so-called UFO disclosure. The closest yellow star solar system with orbiting planets is 119 trillion miles away. Our best current technology would take tens of thousands of years to get there. At speed of light would still take 20 years.

@MattWalshBlog If anything, it makes God more wonderous.

I'm a lot more open to the possibility of aliens than many people here, but the idea that anything related to aliens or UFOs could have "Bible-changing" implications is totally ridiculous. There is no reason why it should shake anyone's faith to find out that God created other lifeforms on other planets out there in the vast cosmos. There are like a hundred billion galaxies. My faith does not demand that I assume they're all completely empty.

@rob_goose @WinsomeStele @ArtemisConsort My concern regarding his disability is about his ability to work. It's not clear if he is simply being compensated for his injuries or if he's being compensated because he's unable to work.

@WinsomeStele @muddyshutter @ArtemisConsort No idea, I'm sure HIPAA applies in some way. My criticisms in this instance are directed at those who hear disability and shriek, absent basic understanding of how/why compensation is awarded. Planner deserves and receives plenty of criticism without me weighing in.

If people think that four years of military service should entitle someone to a lifetime pension, they can make that case openly, but laundering it through disability claims seems very degrading, both individually and socially. You have to lie to get your bag.

@GospelDoc @WallStreetApes Exactly!

@muddyshutter @WallStreetApes Or have an after market remote start installed

American bought her Mazda vehicle for over $30,000. It came with remote start, that was one of the features she really wanted Now she’s trying to jailbreak her car because the feature has been disabled. Mazda now wants her to pay $10 per month to the remote start “Are you f*cking kidding me? It's already installed in my car. You want me to now pay you a subscription on top of the $30,000 car that I bought from you? Make that make sense — I bought this car because I wanted push to start. I want it to be able to start my car when I'm not in my car.” New buyers got a 3 year complimentary trial to use these advanced features. Now that her trial has ended, the Preferred Plan costs $10 per month, $120 per year, for full features including remote engine start and stop I researched and believe she’s mistaken. The physical push-to-start button inside the car is free. It’s the remote engine start feature via the MyMazda app you just pay for Still not acceptable. We need to ban making you pay for features in your own car

@Klinickal @WallStreetApes I'm not sure if you can see this reply, my computer stopped working when I refused to pay the subscription to my internet provider. Can you imagine those greedy bastards requiring me to have a subscription to use the features on my computer! I bought this thing to get online!

@muddyshutter @WallStreetApes No sir. The core issue is your lack of empathy, which causes you to dismiss or discredit this individual at every opportunity, despite agreeing with them!