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

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11. One of the odd things about NH

Is that our "reddest" areas are in the southeastern part of the state - full of "Taxachusetts" refugees. And there is no talking sense to them about the problems in our tax structure - which is badly in need of help. Almost all of our educational funding is from property taxes, and very little at the state level (50th, behind Mississippi), and property desaprities between towns are HUGE - like 100 X (Times!, not percent) - so poor towns struggle mightily to educate their children. Many attempts to rectify this have failed - often because of political opposition from "rich" towns.
We have no state income or sales tax here - it's a great place to be rich! But for the rest of us, it's kinda crazy - like property taxes that are more than morgtage payments.

There's a lot that's good, here. Highest number of motorcycles per capita in the US, same with vanity plates. A lot of racetracks, antique cars, and hot rods. Local food RULES, every large ethnicity has a great food festival. And everything is better with maple. Ox and Horse pulling has a big following at the fairs and "Old Home Days". Yard sales, flea markets, auctions all over the place - The State has 2 "surplus property" auctions a year, you can buy an old police car , DOT pickup, or library van.