5 Laws New Hampster needs to pass right away (sale, renting)

[booker_one]

the op made no good points at all. i live in texas with a stinking 8% sales tax and my property taxes are higher than new hampshire.

[bryfry]

Originally Posted by MFWIC

At 4% sales tax, shopping in NH would still be a deal. And ! we wouldn't have to be a prostitution state. Bad enough a citizen of NH can't even get near their own lakes anymore.
Shopping? Ha ! What are you thinking?

Huh?

[miakelly]

NicoleM - WOW!

Awesome response! Couldn't agree with you more! Your post ROCKED.

[BF66389]

Just one thing- usually when you purchase a boat or a car (generally something big that has to be registered) you pay sales tax for the state in which it is registered for the first time; not where you bought it. So if I bought a car in NH but then register it first in VA- I pay VA sales tax. You don't really "escape" sales tax with purchases like that. With TVs and things though its another story.

Unfortunately a sales tax won't lower property taxes either

I do agree with some of your suggestions:

1) Cell phones (and this should include food, etc- you can't do things with your hands AND drive)- because it protects those around you its not only a personal responsibility issue. That said, I see MUCH fewer people in New England in general on their phones than other parts of the nation.

2) Helmets; if someone wants to die it is there problem and I agree with that point raised by others. However what those others are failing to see is that if you get hit with a rock/bug/whatever in the face at the right time/right place your lack of wearing a helmet could cause you to get into an accident affecting someone else...and that someone else shouldn't have to suffer for your stupidity.

3) Auto insurance; I came from VA having VERY cheap auto insurance. It was also mandatory that you have liability or get a $500 liability protection thing from the state. MA is not a good counterpoint; VA is- it would need to be an unrestricted market (like VA) to be beneficial.

Again, I like the "Live Free or Die" motto as well as personal responsibility. But a few laws to protect OTHERS from the lack of personal responsibility of some idiots- is a good thing.

[booker_one]

2) Helmets; if someone wants to die it is there problem and I agree with that point raised by others. However what those others are failing to see is that if you get hit with a rock/bug/whatever in the face at the right time/right place your lack of wearing a helmet could cause you to get into an accident affecting someone else...and that someone else shouldn't have to suffer for your stupidity

in texas most of them wear helmets and drive like a bat out of hell. i had one pass me one time on a curvy road with not much room between me and the car in front of me...i honked at him and he turned his head around and looked at me for (no joke) about 5 seconds and flipped me off. i know it sounds mean....but sometimes i wish people would just learn the hard way.

[BF66389]

True...but that does not really have to do with helmet laws or lack thereof. There will always be idiots, I just don't want a minivan full of kids to get hit because someone is not wearing a helmet and gets whacked in the face with a cicada. Or worse- for the kids to see someones brain splattered across the highway.

[Colebrook]

NO-WAY to a sales tax . Let the riders decide. Does the op come from Mass? It sure sounds like it.

[WannaComeHome]

Well, gee, MFWIC - I think you can see how popular your ideas are.

Instituting a sales tax will never lower anything, so don't think it would lower any property tax. It never has in any other state, and it wouldn't here either.

If you don't like our motto, our taxes, or the many other things you complained about... the border's to the south. Feel free to come visit like anyone else but don't bother to live here. go live in a state that has sales tax and the rest, you'll be happier I guess.

[nhrocky]

Geez, just what we need, more taxes, and as others have posted, the property taxes probably wouldn't go down, the government would just find more ways to spend the sales tax money.

I for one, love our State Motto. Seems like it was close to the motto of our forefathers during the American Revolution.

"The phrase comes from a toast written by General John Stark on July 31, 1809. Poor health forced Stark, New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War, to decline an invitation to an anniversary reunion of the Battle of Bennington and to send his toast by letter:

"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.""

http://http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c363/nhrocky/Share/?action=view&current=AMERICANREVOLUTIONFLAGS.jpg

[scone]

Wikipedia says NH ranks 46th in total tx burden, and I read somewhere they don't have an estate tax. I'm all for it. Send me my "Live Free or Die" t-shirt.