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On Sun, 26 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:37:20 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> Have they managed to achieve anything major? I work with a guy at one of
>> my customers who lives in NH. He says that yes, taxes are fairly low,
>> but they take that back in fees instead, so not a huge difference in the
>> end according to him.
>
> Not really. afaik NH still doesn't have a sales tax or personal income
> tax. There was a degree of localism. If you had kids and wanted an
> excellent school system you picked a town with good schools -- and paid
> for it with property taxes.

Interesting! Maybe my colleague lives in the wrong town.

> I don't remember any particular fees. There were some voluntary fees. For
> example you could pay a nominal sum, $5 iirc, to register a back country
> trip. No pressure and your choice but if you didn't pay it and ran into
> trouble call somebody who cares. Search & Rescue wasn't coming.
>
> The state was the last to officially recognize Martin Lucifer King Day.
> There was an existing state holiday, 'Fast Day', and they didn't think the
> state workers needed another day off. The unstated argument was why have a
> black holiday in a state with no blacks? They finally elected a Democratic
> female governor and the day was recognized.

Let's see, maybe with Trump in power, they will de-recognize it again? ;)

> The DMV wasn't big on reciprocacy. What happened outside of NH stayed
> outside of NH as far as points on your license.
>
> It started to change with the influx of Massholes.

Hah, law of nature. Once something becomes successful and people are drawn 
to it, it start to deteriorate. =(