Who Do You Think You Are? A Voice from the People in Maine’s Pine Tree Zone Debate

Maine's Pine Tree Zone Tax Exemptions will be up for renewal again, scheduled to end in Dec 2021, A look back at what happened the last time and what can be done better this time.

Who Do you Think You ARE! ? photo by Mackenzie Andersen

“Who do you think you are?”, he said, as though I needed to be granted permission from an omnipotent authority to speak my mind freely.

He is over reacting, I thought. I had merely asked his friend if he was the person who works as an analyst for the State of Maine. No answer was forthcoming as the the public conversation was deleted and continued as private messaging commencing with this:

Bad move to expose my friend like that. Please consider using discretion better if you want to remain friends.

I just said OK. His next message began “Thank you”, seemingly interpreting “OK” as agreement that I would behave according to his instructions. I meant- OK, if asking the simple question means he will stop being friends with me, so be it. There was nothing untowar…