New Hampshire Passes New Budget Loaded With Tax Increases

  The opening paragraph from this article sums up New Hampshire’s new budget fairly well.

Next month, smokers, campers, drivers and boaters will dig deeper into their pockets to pay for the services New Hampshire will provide citizens in an $11.5 billion budget passed Wednesday

  In other words, everybody is going to get screwed again this year under this irresponsible governor. Or should I say “sacrifice?” That is the word that these out of control politicians like to throw around.

    Included in, but not limited to, this year’s screwing is a 45 cent per pack tax increase on cigarettes, a “surcharge” on vehicle registrations, a 10% gambling winning tax, and a tax hike up to 9% on rooms and meals that will also include campsites. That’s right, if you go camping you will suddenly face an almost 10%  increase in the cost of camping as the rooms tax will now apply to campgrounds. How absurd is that?

  If you win on a scratch ticket you will pay a 10% tax, considering the fact that the money you spent on the ticket is state revenue taxing the winnings is double dipping by the state.

  Here is what you will pay in addition to the registration fee that you already pay in New Hampshire:

0-5000 pounds: $30 surcharge
5001-10,000 pounds: $45 surcharge
10,000-26,000 pounds: $60 surcharge
26,001-73,280 pounds: $75 surcharge

  And add another $15 if you have vanity plates.

  The taxes just keep on coming in New Hampshire and judging from the comments left by residents on the Union Leader’s website it appears as though people may have finally had enough.

  2010 could be shaping up to be a bell-weather election in this state. The governor may have finally pushed the envelope too far. It is time to take back our state.