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Old 06-30-2008, 02:43 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by JTA View Post
Perhaps NH needs an income tax, but in Connecticut we were sold on the idea that an income tax would reduce our high sales tax. Now we have the income tax plus a pretty healthy sales tax AND our property taxes are at least as high as here (based on real estate that I look at on line and compare to my house in CT). Actually, the property tax seems lower here than in CT.
I agree.......Conn JUST went through putting an income tax on the books in the 90s and guess what, yup, the overall state tax burden went up, not down ! I am going to say it forever out here: show me ONE state in the nation that added a sales or income tax that in the long term lowered property taxes, or its overall tax burden, just one.

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