Thank you to JeffK and IrishMist for posting what I was thinking and what everyone needed to hear. We can all complain about property taxes in NH and how every other state does it differently. But every other state that has tried the experiment of tax-burden-reduction through new tax redistribution has failed to accomplish either. The examples are numerous. Connecticut has been noted here. Vermont and Maine continue to battle over who has the highest tax burden in the country. Our neighbor to the south... Why do folks continue to want to follow those same failed models?
Control the spending and you control your taxes. Period.
But the point I think that most people may miss is this:
FatLazyLess got a bill and has to write a check. It's a big bill and he took notice. What would our taxes look like if we got a semi-annual bill for all of them instead of paying a dollar here and dollar there? If we had to open that piece of mail and see that bill and write the check for the sales tax you pay in drips and drabs all year. What would our Federal taxes look like if we paid that bill once every year? And I'm not talking about the big bill we complain about having to pay every April because we didn't pay enough in taxes... I'm talking about writing a check once a year to cover ALL the federal deductions that were quietly hijacked from your paycheck all year? The same model FatLazyLess endorses.
If we got a bill and had to a cut a check for every tax we paid, then folks would start to get it.
Anyone still think this is anything but a spending problem?
