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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
Hello SIKSUKR, very good question, I'll keep my answer brief.
The battle cry of the NH Republican party is 'we need to protect the NH Advantage, no sales or income tax!' The reason why NH has no sales or income tax is because a sales and income tax are built into the very high property taxes. As a widely known, reverred and powerfull politician, Senator Gregg's five out of six, quik-pik, Powerball win of 800+thousand dollars in October 2005 is a dramatic example which illustrates our New Hampshire state tax system is not a fair system. It is not based on one's abilty to pay.
On the same day that Senator Judd 'Easy-Money' Gregg won his 800+ thousand dollars, I personally purchased a McChicken sandwich and the state gets a tax of eight cents. I pay eight cents, while Senator Gregg pays zero. This says that I am subsidizing Senator Gregg for his use of NH state services. Is this a fair tax system?
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First off, the slogan "
we need to protect the NH Advantage, no sales or income tax!" has been co-opted by the Democratic Party and is no longer the exclusive mantra of the State's Republicans. Remember, our very popular
DEMOCRATIC Governor has campaigned successfully and been re-elected on his promise of vetoing any sales or income tax brought to his desk. A promise, mind you, also given by many of the re-elected and newly elected
Democratic members of the House & Senate.
Truth is the so called NH advantage is a view that is still held by the majority of voters in the State of New Hampshire and that is why you will see no income or sales tax come out of Concord these next two years, it is simply not the will of the majority of elected officials and it is still not the will of the majority of the folks qualified to elect those same officials!
As for Judd Gregg he puts his pants on one leg at a time, no different than me or you. Each and every one of us had the same chance to purchase and win the Powerball. It does not discriminate over income, property, political or religous beliefs or petty jealousy.
And yes, while the good Senator did not pay an income tax in New Hampshire on his winnings he did pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in Federal income tax on same. Of those hundreds of thousands of income tax dollars, a portion of that money made it back to New Hampshire in various forms of federal aid, much more in dollars than the paltry eight cents you paid while resting on your laurels contemplating Judd Gregg's good fortune over a McChicken sandwich.
No FLL, it is the good Senator that was subsidizing you all along! Methinks you better find another example in your quest to find the only fair tax system...you know, the fairest tax is the tax that the other guy pays!
