I live in NH. I am glad we do not have an income tax.
However, a sales tax is more fair because then everyone pays, not just people who get a W2.
I personally pay around $8400 in property taxes on my residence. There are towns in NH that have a much lower tax rate. Tuftonboro, Moultonboro, Sunapee, Wolfeboro. These are all towns surrounding the big lakes where the water front houses pay the majority of the taxes. IF you do not own a lakefront house in these towns, the taxes are under $4000. When you combine this with no sales and income taxes, it makes these townships literally the lowest tax burden places in the USA.
I lived in Madison, NH and payed about your stated amount in property tax, 20 years ago...now I’m northern Vermont and pay 1/4 that in property tax for ten times the acreage....and still have *my* mountain, a view out the back deck. The best of both worlds, I think.
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We can also *double-dip, b/c being only 6 miles to NH, what little shopping I do,I can do in NH, for the tax savings.
FWIW, we have Bernie and you don’t neener neener! :)
Carry on.
