As laboratories go, Massachusetts is a mixed bag. The sort you put over someone’s head before stuffing them into a nondescript van. Inside the bag, along with your face, is a profusion of bad ideas driven by a maddening addiction to spending and higher taxes.
New Hampshire residents who work in the Bay State are familiar. Things cost more “down under.” A reality that motivates many a Masshole to cross our southern border. These are refugees in search of a better life. Continued ease of access to Dunkin Donuts. But who often forget to change their voting habits or to move their job to New Hampshire.
Related: Lowell Sun Editorial – If NH Residents Don’t Want to Pay Mass Taxes – Get a Job In New Hampshire
Governor Charlie Baker (R-Transemocrat) deliberately trapped thousands of those transplants in the Granite State. They found themselves working in New Hampshire ‘cuz COVID19. The cradle of liberty erected a no-entry sign, but like any “good addict,” Massachusetts continued to tax the fruits of those labors, even though the “laborers” never set foot inside the state.
New Hampshire stepped up and said, wait a minute. That’s not right. You can’t tax them for working here. Massachusetts said it was temporary and gave us the middle finger, so we sued.
When the story broke, my conclusion on this matter was that nothing would come of it. Several months later, after reading and researching, it seemed like there might be a case, but in the end, SCOTUS refused even to hear the case. My initial gut reaction was correct, but SCOTUS is a lot like how Winnie the Pooh views bees. You can never tell.
Not so with Taxxachusetts and its maddening addiction to binge and purge. That means binge on spending and then purge your pockets to pay for it. But it’s not like that here.
New Hampshire’s total tax burden is less than Maskachusetts. We have no traditional broad-based taxes. No sales tax. Beer, Wine, Liquor, Tobacco, and vaping products are more accessible and less expensive, and those taxes are lower.
Then there are motor fuels. Gasoline. Again, the state tax in NH is less than in Massachusetts. Gas is cheaper.
When Trump was president and gas went below 2.00 a gallon, maybe that was less of an incentive to be here and not there. With the Bidenistas running the show in just a few months, gas prices have nearly doubled t which the spendaholics in the Bay State would like to pig pile another tax. The TCI tax.
They are not even shy about it. TCI is supposed to make motor fuel cost more, so people will drive less, but they’ve already admitted they want it to balance budgets. We appreciate the honesty. Adding another 0.20-0.40 per gallon will eventually make driving from almost anywhere to New Hampshire to buy gas cheaper than buying it down the street.
Why not stock up on cigarettes, vaping supplies, beer, wine, liquor, and fireworks while you’re here. If Biden Climate Tsar John Kerry needed another boat to hide from Mass taxes, he’d save a bundle buying it, New Hampshire. Wait that won’t work. When you register it, you have to pay the Massachusetts sales and use tax no matter where you bought it.
I guess it’s just better to live and work in New Hampshire, assuming you stop voting as if you live in Massachusetts.
So, we may have lost the battle at the Supreme Court, but we’re still winning the war. And not just with Massachusetts. Vermont is all but lost to the Left.
Maine is well on its way. Its legislature just passed Landmark recycling reform. It shifts those costs from municipalities to private producers who will be forced to (eventually) offset those new charges in the costs of goods and services.
Municipalities will spend any “savings” somewhere else instead of lowering local taxes.
That’s Massachusetts in spades. As with all left-wing lead projects, the problem is not a lack of revenue. It is a complete disregard for whose money you spend. And the only fix for that is an electorate that picks people willing to cut spending and prune budgets.
As long as New Hampshire can convince transplants not to vote themselves back into the hell they just left, we’ll be fine. We’ll win the war.
If not, NH Dems are on the record wanting to put that same bag over your head, stuff you and your lifestyle into a non-descript van, and fill it with taxes and fees, including TCI. The Granite State would be reduced to a big northern country of the “Pay State” to our south.
As the featured image notes, it’s not F’d up over here for a reason. Let’s see if we can keep it that way.
