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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    He probably just stopped to get directions to the notorious New Hampshire donkey shows.
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    Image of 1WordUp 1WordUp
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    As a former Masshole, I must say their liquor laws used to completely defy comprehension. No alcohol sales on Sunday, EXCEPT the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. One town (Weyland?) required that you could not stand at a bar with a drink - you had to be sitting.

    It made Utah look like New Orleans.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    09/02/09

    @1WordUp: They're called Blue Laws and you weren't alone. Connecticut and Rhode Island also had to put up with such crap. Its a Puritans thing, blame it on them.
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    The Lone Scout promoted this comment Conchie Birdie was starred Conchie Birdie was unstarred
    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    @Conchie Birdie: Calvinists, too. There were "package stores" in some counties and others were "dry" in North Carolina back in the dinosaur ages.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    09/02/09

    @Conchie Birdie: South Carolina has some weird ones too. They're not allowed to have open containers in the bar (or something) so they use little nips for every drink. And I think the bars close earlier on Saturday nights than on Fridays so that people get a good night's sleep before churching it the whole next day.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    ... and spend it in New Hampshire.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    You forgot to mention that New Hampshire is where all your weird uncles go to raise their family and BY GOD they will own a shotgun if they please.
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    The Lone Scout promoted this comment Conchie Birdie was starred Conchie Birdie was unstarred
    Image of GabrielBarba GabrielBarba
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    To be fair: our liquor is taxed. It's just called the "liquor store's profits." They're run by the state! and they're not packys! Not even a little bit! and you can buy soft booze at a grocery store!

    I'll give you a minute to wrap your heads around this.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    Haha. Dick.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    Actually, research!

    "Michael J. Rodrigues’ blue Ford Crown Victoria, emblazoned with his "House 29" Massachusetts license plate, was parked outside a Granite State liquor store on Interstate-95 South over the weekend, according to a witness who provided pictures to the Herald."

    Google says there are three liquor stores in East Providence on I-195 before he even hits 95 South (Barrington liquors, Jordan Beverage store, and Warren Avenue liquor mart), so not only is he an idiot - he's an idiot with crappy GPS. East Providence is even the nice part of town apparently - there's a country club nearby! Can any locals set me straight?
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    Image of eastvillageidiot eastvillageidiot
    09/02/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: That's Rhode Island, not New Hampshire. He went WAY out of his way to go shopping at liquor stores, considering how far Westport is from the New Hampshire border.

    My guess, since he was going south, is that he was coming from a vacation spot up north and felt inclined to stock up on tax-free booze on the way home.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    Wait - you mean taxes incentivize people to choose other markets? Hmm. This may have policy implications.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Hearted, for your sobering observation.
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    Image of Deric Deric
    09/02/09

    @The Lone Scout: "Sobering", Taxachusetts and Ted driving off a bridge...

    You win this thread.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    @Deric: No flattering--you'll just encourage me.

    In other news, I'm just holding my own in the Ling-Lee fiasco comments. (With whiplash, too, from debating the same people on two different Ling-Lee posts--one on Valleywag/Gawker, the other on Jezzie. And I thought the days of segregation were behind us.)
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/02/09 3:02 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    That tax is for drunken tourists, carrying flasks down the Freedom Trail.

    If it weren't for Massholes buying fireworks and hootch, NH might have been quietly absorbed into VT by now...
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    Image of paxcincinnatus paxcincinnatus
    09/02/09

    @City_Dater: Not true - their maple syrup viscosities are totally different.
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    Image of dado dado
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    He could vote himself a pay raise so he can pay his taxes to pay himself when he pays for booze.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    When will the politicos learn? Constituencies will tolerate just about anything (see: Elliot Spitzer), except HYPOCRISY.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    Note to Pareene: Kindly add "TAXACHUSETTS" tag. ("MASSHOLES." Kudos.)
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/02/09 1:35 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of Sanson Sanson
    09/02/09

    @The Lone Scout: The Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts is 23rd out of 50 for state and local taxes, but if you really drink a lot, that goes up fast.
    [www.boston.com]
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    The Lone Scout promoted this comment Sanson was starred Sanson was unstarred
    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    @C.H. Sanson: Yes, it's a tired old cliche that I recommended to Pareene, but then again I've been laughing at my own comments today. I'll come off the manic phase soon.
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    Image of Altaira Altaira
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    Westport is no where near the NH border. It is all the way south on the RI border. 2+ hour drive; seems the cost in gas would more than cancel out the cost in taxes.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    09/02/09

    @Altaira:

    Maybe he was on his way back from Newport and figured "why not take a packy detour"?

    Oh, the summers spent getting just a little high in a NH parking lot, waiting for the guy with the ID to buy...
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    Image of the_marquee_de_lafayette the_marquee_de_lafayette
    09/02/09

    @Altaira: Volume, darling. The secret is volume.

    I probably visit the NH liquor stores twice a year (when driving through - they make it easy by putting the hooch bonanzas in rest areas), but it supplies probably 90% of my hard liquor for the year. At roughly half the cost of what I'd pay in NYC.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    @the_marquee_de_lafayette: If you paid for it using a credit card, then you would have one liquored-up hedge fund on your hands.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    "Drink Cheap or Die."
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    09/02/09

    In reply to Booze-Taxing Mass Lawmaker Caught At New Hampshire Packy
    Maybe Massachusetts ran out of alcohol.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/02/09

    @son of spam: I would write, "Au contraire, given the dwindling population in Camelot," but that would be unfair. Like taking a long drive off a short bridge.
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    Image of Deric Deric
    09/02/09

    @The Lone Scout: Well crafted, but don't you go getting a big head.
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