How far south, interested in Lewiston..

Depends on where you live. My property tax is less than $5,000. With no sales tax and no income tax this works for me.

Yes we pay higher taxes than most places.

> When you include insurance premiums and out of pocket costs for healthcare

This is probably the important qualifier in their post.

The joke is that if you live in New Hampshire and commute to Boston your overall tax burden and cost of living ends up higher than it would have been if you just stayed in "Taxachusetts".

Can't pay income tax if you don't have any income points at temple.meme

I think Ortiz has swung a little late on this pitch. The ball is already in the catcher's mitt and the game is over.

And it prolly took them 30 years to get there. Which is another joke.

There’s teachers in RSU40 that make over 100k a year.

It’s moreso cost of living overall. We have lower salaries and higher cost of living. It’s just never been a state where employers pay much. The sprawl doesn’t help, we have a very low population density so it costs more per person to maintain roads and the like.

I don’t have garbage trucks in my town. You pay per bag at the transfer station.

I think the difference is in most of Maine the income is lower than other states. So your tax per income is higher than most states.

43rd is “some of the highest”?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/highest-taxed-countries

Ah, then it looks like this statute would cover the situation. Thanks.

ME rural areas pay new teachers more because the state mandated it.

Experienced teachers still get paid shit.

I live in NH and I just got my yearly invoice for my 11 year old Camry. It's $117.

Tons of misinformation in this thread.

In many places you also can't put edibles in colorful packaging or have any type of shape (gummy bears) that may be attractive to children, but beer cans? Sure, that's fine. 9 out of 10 kids prefer Orono Tubular, a great beer in a totally tubular can!

You can make numbers say anything you want, but this is an interesting analysis that found that NH was #1 on the return on investment from taxes:

https://wallethub.com/edu/state-taxpayer-roi-report/3283

The joke is definitely on people who think this is a joke. Because the wages in Boston are 50% higher, and the income tax is 5%.

By all means, don't take the Boston jobs though. Leave them for the rest of us :)

When you include insurance premiums and out of pocket costs for healthcare, hell the USA has some of the highest taxes in the world.

I generally agree with this statement. I have lived in MD, VA, WA, and ME. At the end of the day it mostly evens out. I have came to the conclusion that any place the majority of people see as a desirable place to live will cost you in taxes, cost of living, or salary (up or down).

Kinda funny that you can buy Big Papi’s orange dreamcicle or lava cake blunts, but you can’t buy menthol cigarettes in many cities.

New Hampshire funds everything from property taxes and my understanding is they are crazy high.

100% that it mostly evens out because if something isn’t taxed, or is taxed lower, they make up the revenue somewhere else. That said, property taxes are local and can vary wildly depending upon where you live, esp in ME. If you live in a ME city or a town with public water/sewer, the property taxes are much higher than in a rural town on a home of equal value. And of course, property taxes are based on the value of a home, which a lot of people don’t get as they just look at the dollar amount of what they pay. My property taxes in MA are 5x higher than my property taxes in ME (no public water/sewer), but my house in MA is worth 3x more and the MA taxes pay for public water, sewer, trash removal/recycling (not covered in my ME property taxes), excellent town amenities and I’m in a top MA public school system, so I’m getting a lot of value for that tax money.

Tough talk from guys that are not living free but refuse to die. Cowards.