state by state speak your mind about...new hampshire

[Warren Stupidity]

9. the descent into t-bag-nuttery in 2010 was rather depressing.

There is some hope things will turn around, but my wife (ms stupidity to you) and I wonder if we are gonna stay or gonna go. Long term we probably cant afford to retire here because the IDIOTS prefer a tax system based on the theory that property equals income, a theory that was valid circa 1850, but is hopelessly stupid circa 2012, over an actual income based taxation system.

I could go on about this. In fact I will. I had more or less the following conversation with a person I work with, both of us from the same town in NH, both of us working, like a lot of the population of this state, in our neighbor to the south, the dreaded Taxachussettes.

Me: "you know if we had a state income tax instead of us giving all this money to Mass every year, we could repatriate a lot of it back to our own state. We could lower property taxes, and perhaps all of us could afford to actually retire here."

Him: "yes but I prefer keeping things the way they are".

Me: "why? Wouldn't your rather have that money back in our state?"

Him: "property taxes are spent locally. If we had an income tax my money would be going out of town."

I stopped there. What can I say to that? He would rather lose 6% of his income to Mass than have some of that, say half of it, come back to NH, lowering his property taxes in addition, because he'd be sharing that loot with people outside his town. Seriously. I give up. The republican mind set is all about the fear that "those people" are getting a free ride off of "my money". It is insanity, as in an irrational belief system.