Skip took some time to fisk a letter to the Concord Monitor in which someone named John Andrews complains about the high property taxes in New Hampshire. He notes that across the border in Maine, he’d be paying a lot less in property taxes.
Skip does a great job exposing the fallacies upon which Andrews makes his case, and rightly points out that Maine has lots of other taxes that John never mentions. But he doesn’t have space to show how vast the chasm of the overall tax burden is between Maine and New Hampshire.
It’s Yuge.
(WalletHub.com) “…WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states across the three tax types that comprise state tax burden — property taxes, individual income taxes, and sales and gross receipts taxes — as a percentage of total personal income in the state. Scroll down for the results, expert commentary and a full description of our methodology.”
In the 2016 Survey Maine ranks third highest in the country for overall tax burden at 11.13%. New York State is #2 at 11.86% and Hawaii is the worst at 13.12%.
At the exact opposite end of the tax burden spectrum is New Hampshire, ranking 47th, with a total burden of only 6.88%.
I think John should move to Maine, where he can complain to their local papers about how much more he’s paying in taxes even though his property tax bill is only a fraction of what it was in New Hampshire.
