Comments on: Now it’s Official: Tax-Free New Hampshire

By: zenpundit

zenpundit — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:47:50 +0000

“1. no goods taxes in New Hampshire but huge property tax and nearly zero social services for those in need.”

A good friend of mine moved from Silicon Valley ( not exactly a low-income region) in California to New Hampshire. He gained lower taxes but much better public schools, police protection and quality of life. I’ve been to New Hampshire and no one appeared to be homeless in the streets; I can’t say the same for California, even in an area where very modest houses ( duplexes and townhouses to be specific)begin at $ 400 k+.

In fairness to California, their once excellent public school system and public health programs was destroyed *in part* by the disproportionate spillover costs of uncontrolled illegal immigration, something out of the hands of California officials.

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:07:14 +0000

Dear Mr. Cohen:

If you are not a drunken sod, then you are not taking the fullest possible advantage of the regulatory arbitrage that the good people of New Hampshire make available to you.

That is, of course, your personal choice.

I grew up in Massachusetts. We considered New Hampshire to be something like Appalachia, basically a state full of the banjo playing kid from Deliverance, but with Yankee accents. This was unfair, I now see. They are like that, but have guns and low taxes, and Mark Steyn lives there, which makes them OK.

Happy April Fools’ Day.

By: david cohen

david cohen — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:30:05 +0000

Dear Mr Lex–
I am not a drunken sod etc etc. I am from a steate close to New Hamsphire. I visit friends there often. I bring back bottles of booze for me, my relatives and a few friends because it saves lots of money. New Hamshiore does not ask where I come from. They are happy to sell to me. I do not fall down drunk etc. In fact, I have a profession, have served honorably in wartime. Have a nice family and am not a leftist drunk. I was taught to seek the best value for hard hearned money and if saving money by buying at a tax-free place saves me money, hen I will do it rather than pay taxes in another state. That is capitalism at its best. As for drinking, I am not a drunk but do believe in usingbooze for the trickle down effect

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:21:21 +0000

Dare I detect a faint whiff of April Fool?

By: NH

NH — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:25:38 +0000

This is sad because Lynch is in the process of DESTROYING NH with his education funding schemes, almost forcing us to have some sort of sales or income tax when it is NOT NEEDED.

We are up in arms about this! He took a pledge he would veto any broadbased tax but now this is happening.

He will go down in history as the governor who ruined the NH Advantage.

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:50:25 +0000

“…nearly zero social services for those in need.”

Good. That makes them go somewhere else. If you subsidize something you get more of it. Let the high tax states have all the people in need sucking on the sows teat.

Ha. If New Hampshire’s low taxes are the cause of the depraved drinking habits of the poor souls in Massachusetts. They would be nice puritanical liberals drinking green tea and going to anti-Bush rallies and recycling their bottles, but instead they are all passed out in their urine-sodden trousers in random doorways — if only NH was more willing to enforce morality by means of the tax code. Now I see why the people of Massachusetts are such useless drunken sods. They are victims of an immorally low tax code to the North. Drink lots, then drive in Massachusetts.

By: david cohen

david cohen — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:36:03 +0000

1. no goods taxes in New Hampshire but huge property tax and nearly zero social services for those in need.
2. the Mass versus New hampshire thing is really about the tax-free booze that so many of us take advantage of. We visit New Hampshire and on the way out, stopa state booze stores and load trunks of c ars so that we save lots of money on our drinking. It is nice because it encourages us to drink lots. Thanks, New Hampshire! Drink free or die