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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
My argument with the good senator is not that he played and beat the long odds and won the Powerball. Good for Senator Gregg, I wish him well and all other lottery winners. My argument is that the NH tax system will tax people, like the elderly and others, who have no income but still have to pay a tax that gets bigger every year. An income tax is a more fair way for the state to go than its' cuurrent local property tax method. Lottery winners should be taxed as part of the same income tax system. Do they have the ability to pay? Yes, they do.
What other state uses a local property tax to pay for 14 different county level nursing homes, court houses, prisons and more and has 14 different administration systems and not just one. One state income tax would be equal all across the state and could be applied to incomes and pensions.
Property values are way up and so is the median age of the state's population so where is our current system going...?
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Hmmmmm, interesting points, so if I follow your logic, fair means that you only pay taxes if you have a job, or are able to pay. What if I don't have a job but do have some income, but have many bills for things such as cable tv, thursday night bingo, eating out every tuesday and friday night, spend 3 months down in Florida and want to be a hero and leave a sizeable inheritance to my kids. I can afford all this other stuff but not my taxes, under your rule I don't have to pay anything, how is that fair?
If you think another tax is going to reduce your burden, you may be suffering from white line fever.
The politicians are frothing at the mouth to spend more money.
Look at my wonderful home state of Massachusetts, our newly elected governor, elected by a landslide on the promise of 1000 new cops and reducing or eliminating property tax has now declared that he can't do these things because of a 1 billion dollar (his estimate) deficit. Of course this is after he reinstated $400 million in cuts his predecessor had made for things such as a new stone wall for a guy in Lowell.
Now this charmer has junked his state Crown Victoria for a new state Cadillac that he just leased for $1,166 a month AND he just hired one of his campaign chiefs as a "social" secretary for his wife to the tune of $72,000 per year. This guy is one of your beloved Democrats.
Keep pushing Less, you'll get what you want and pay more than ever.