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10-31-2011, 05:11 PM
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Location: Madbury, New Hampshire
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I think it is horrible that in a place as large as America, there is no place you can go where the federal level doesn't massively tax your income and require you to contribute 15.3% of every dollar you ever earn to a doomed Ponzi Scam "retirement" program, and where ALL the states impose taxes close to 10% of the average income.
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Actually there is somewhere you can go where you retain your American citizenship and won't pay any taxes at all. Become federal contractor and go work in Iraq or Afghanistan for 10 months of every year. |
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11-01-2011, 12:28 PM
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if you mean liberals - they are in Vt and Mass. and taking over 'conservative' NH, especially southern NH which is now known as Northern MA.
The conservative repubs have taken back the NH house/senate, but the gov is still a democrat (who will not be running again). in 2008 NH went for obama.
There was an Occupy NH movement, so small that I didn't even see it mentioned on this board.
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11-01-2011, 02:32 PM
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Location: Epping,NH
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There was press on the Occupy NH event.
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11-02-2011, 05:46 AM
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Location: Londonderry, NH
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Some of our most prominent Republicans spew the most anti-American nonsense imaginable.
13 K in property taxes? I pay less than 3K. But I do not own very expensive property or vehicles.
IMHO the underlying problem is, a NHPHOTOG states, is the collusion between big finance, big business and the Federal government. They are the forces destroying our prosperity.
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11-05-2011, 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by pauloman
if you mean liberals - they are in Vt and Mass. and taking over 'conservative' NH, especially southern NH which is now known as Northern MA.
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So why are NH's "reddest" counties in the south (I believe both Hillsborough and Rockingham) where all those MA "liberals" are camping out. There was a study a few years back showing transplants as actually more conservative voters than the natives themselves (they know why they came there and why they left _____). And how is it that MA transplants are stopping anyone from "doing what they want"? That is a serious question, you might be correct but I have yet to understand how. |
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11-06-2011, 05:34 AM
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Location: at the end of a dirt road
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Because the Mass transplants in Hillsborough and Rockingham counties haven't really left Mass. What you see in places like Nashua and Derry is Rt 128 sprawl. This is one of the main reasons why NH has so much more industry and decent jobs available than VT. Southern NH can tap into the high tech area near Boston.
Mass transplants who really want to get away from that move farther north.
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11-06-2011, 06:07 AM
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So why are NH's "reddest" counties in the south (I believe both Hillsborough and Rockingham) where all those MA "liberals" are camping out. There was a study a few years back showing transplants as actually more conservative voters than the natives themselves (they know why they came there and why they left _____). And how is it that MA transplants are stopping anyone from "doing what they want"? That is a serious question, you might be correct but I have yet to understand how.
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Well, just my opinion....
I have lived in southern NH for just a little less than 20 years, and have watched a radical change to the cultural environment (in this case, Windham, in Rockingham County).
I believe that there are a few transplants (as I was one), that are more conservative than the natives, but in my observations, most of the transplants want the same services and entitlements that they received when they lived in MA (thus, much higher taxes). The town population has grown 25% in 9 years. (Now about 13,000 or so, and many from MA). The new high school (which town officials told us would not affect our property taxes) caused mine to go up by over $5,000. The residents of the town are voting to spend money like drunken sailors. One of the reasons I left MA was to escape this ridiculous Obama-like spending. I finally threw in the towel when property taxes hit $2000/month. I have moved north to escape the influx of such tax-and-spend behavior, and will know that at some point I will have to move again. So in summary, many (not all) MA transplants are stopping me from "doing what I want", by believing that the government can better utilize my money for things I don't care about, than allowing me to utilize it for things I choose. Our country was not built on 'mob-rule'.
Whew!
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11-06-2011, 07:13 AM
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I tend to agree that in general Massachusetts residents who moved to NH, moved here to escape the Massachusetts-culture of taxing & spending. That said: in the last 6 or 7 years there's been an influx of Mass residents who can no longer afford housing prices in the greater Boston area so they moved to southern NH. This crowd really has no philosophical connection to NH, and truth be told, really does not want to live here, and if they could afford to.....would move back to Massachusetts if they could do so.
It's not that this new crowd is hard-core liberal....it's just that they are not as hard-core conservative, by nature, as former Mass residents that moved up here IMO. And they will swing more to the left than the people that used to move up here from Mass....hence we see the NH house go democrat 5 years ago fo the first time in almost 100 years.
I hope home prices keep falling so these folks can go home. It will be better for them, and better for us 
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02-15-2012, 05:58 AM
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Actually there is somewhere you can go where you retain your American citizenship and won't pay any taxes at all. Become federal contractor and go work in Iraq or Afghanistan for 10 months of every year.
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11 months a year (actually the requirement is to only be in the US for 30 days or less in a one year period), and they still start charging taxes for everything above $82000 or $92000. |
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02-15-2012, 06:07 AM
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Location: Monadnock area, NH
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Actually there is somewhere you can go where you retain your American citizenship and won't pay any taxes at all. Become federal contractor and go work in Iraq or Afghanistan for 10 months of every year.
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That's part of the reason taxes are so high. We are paying $100,000 plus per contractor when we have soldiers who can do the job for half of that. Not to mention companies like Xe and Triple Canopy make money on top of that 100K. |
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