Reply #5: Lots and lots of little things [View All]

The biggest, as NHDem said, is probably the 8% food and lodging tax. There's also taxes on all sorts of other things, most of which NHDem already mentioned. Some others include bingo/poker, the lottery, and tolls. Tolls are about the least fair method of getting money, as anyone who lives north of Concord, west of Amherst, or south-east of Manchester could, theoretically, never have to drive through them. Contrast that to someone who wants to go from Nashua to Concord, who has to pay 75 cents each way... and that's with a 50% discount from buying tokens, which they've talked about decreasing. Plus the town of Merrimack has tollbooths off of every exit on the Everett Turnpike, accounting for practically half of all of them in the state.

And there's also the statewide property tax. As far as funding for public schools... that's an entirely seperate issue, with nothing really solved, even with the passing of SB 302.