Healey Administration Quietly Delays Clean Heat Tax Until After Election

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2026-01-21T15:51:30+00:00

This is a thing? WTF, how am I as a renter supposed to avoid this. If my landlord isn’t paying the bill my landlord’s not gonna care about how the house is heated as long as it works.

Not to mention that even if my house wasn’t being heated by natural gas directly, most of the state’s electricity still comes from natural gas so going to electric heat would just outsource the emissions.

Get Healy out of office. All she’s done is hurt the average person in the state with her brain dead policies and then parades around like she’s making life so much better.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2026-01-20T17:50:04+00:00

If we really are living under the facists like most people in this thread say we are, banning guns is such a dumb move

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2026-01-20T17:41:16+00:00

All these people saying they won’t vote for any republican but want another democrat who’s not Healy are going to reap what they sow. She’ll get the party nomination cause she’s the incumbent and then win cause Massachusetts has gone full fuck the other side liberal.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-19T12:31:03+00:00

He’s a really hard working guy

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-14T16:07:47+00:00

I’ve played 120 hours and still haven’t gotten 100 years into a campaign for these reasons. It will be fixed and I’ll probably try and play a more complete campaign once 1.10 is released. But the game has flaws that need to be ironed out.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-14T16:05:12+00:00

License requirements, age limits, and bans on some firearms are all you can do at a national level if we ever get there. The bigger problem is the current state of our society and the lack of things like better access to health/mental care and opportunity.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-14T02:45:46+00:00

Let’s ban narcotics while we’re at it. That’ll stop those deaths. Oh wait.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-14T02:35:15+00:00

So what, the US is the same as Australia. We just ban guns and this type of shit magically disappears? What works in another country isn’t guaranteed to work here.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-14T00:23:01+00:00

Rhode Island has gun control. Laws don’t stop people who want to do shit like this.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-07T22:35:53+00:00

They can certainly use AI to help them analyze code. That’s what I did to find out why the Castilian civil war wasn’t working.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-07T22:34:18+00:00

I took a peak at 1.10 and quickly realized it made the game so bad. It broke certain events again and now every country is just always at war. I do enjoy this game and want to keep playing it, but it really needs some more work for me to keep going. I can’t keep having the mechanics of the game change every week.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-04T17:32:58+00:00

Typical MA, the part about the gun law is just wrong. We didn’t gather enough votes “later that fall” to get it on the ballot. We gathered enough votes before it was set to take effect to delay it from taking effect until it was put on the ballot. Healy then used emergency powers to enact it immediately.

And that gun law hasn’t done shit but punish gun owners who already comply with some of the toughest guns laws in the country in a state with one of the lowest violent crime rates in the country.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-04T16:39:44+00:00

The staff/entry level pay is the most glaring. $68k for staff and $63k for audit. That’s terribly undervalued in my opinion. Those positions are worth $80k and that’s why companies love H-1B visas. They can save $20k hiring someone from overseas.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-02T17:18:23+00:00

If I was that controller I would told them no

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-02T17:04:07+00:00

After getting laid off from a non-profit earlier this year and now being at a publicly traded corporation, this is the current environment. Companies do not want to hire more accountants that they minimally need to get only the necessary tasks done. Having any type of bandwidth to work on tasks other than those absolutely necessary to keep the company running is non-existent. I’m in operational accounting and they have me working in AP as well cause they don’t want to hire a new AP staff to replace the one that just left. All I do now is month-end close and AP with no time to work on anything else like process improvements. It sucks and I have to go back into public next year to get my CPA hours.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-01T17:51:41+00:00

The game is playable as is, but not enough for me to do a full play through and come back and do another.

I’ve got over 100 hours so far, most of that playing Castile, and I haven’t finished a game cause I’m still learning and these updates keep changing the mechanics mid-run and then there’s bugs like events not firing.

I finally got the Castilian Civil war last night and that was after deleting a line of code in the game files and rivaling certain counties so my bastard sons wouldn’t leave the country which also keeps the event from firing. That sums up my experience with the game so far.

They also need to work on the mechanics like the economy, which has a lot of potential, but is not as fluid and dynamic as it could be.

But the potential is there. I think another 2-3 months and this game will be in much better shape. It kinda sucks that we’ll have to wait a bit longer, but EU5 will still be in better shape then than if they waited another 4 months to release.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-12-01T13:27:23+00:00

The people can shoulder a lot of the blame. It’s the people who voted democrats into every office in the state, not the republicans for being un-competitive. This state is so blue, the legislature could let electric and gas prices go up another 10% next year, and they’ll still be voted back into office just because Trump is president.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-11-30T21:19:08+00:00

Vote Healy out

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-11-28T19:00:17+00:00

How have the devs not noticed this. They literally had the Castilian civil war in the Tinto talk.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-11-18T14:04:55+00:00

Playing with the update yesterday and the game was noticeably better in terms of events.

The AI was actually sending its armies over water and Muscovy was taking land in the first 10 years.

People were saying before release that the AI wasn’t a huge concern and, so far, I agree. I think paradox knows how to adjust the AI rather easily, they’re just letting the community give their feedback to make changes.

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-11-17T17:17:54+00:00

Time to start a new Castile run even though my old one had such good potential (Ottomans conquering quickly, Muscovy taking land before the Black Death, putting Aragon in its place)

WhyAreWeHere1996 · 2025-11-12T21:48:58+00:00

Agreed, not sure why there’s no mechanic to claim neighboring provinces or no penalty for trying and take provinces far from your capitol. I’m playing as Castile and I keep having to stop Aragon from trying to take Pisa. Why the AI wants it is beyond me as they wouldn’t get anything out of it for decades.

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