2001 Letter to the editor I have lived in New Hampshire for only four years, but that qualifies me to make an observation or two about the state. New Hampshire is a place of great beauty, with magnificent mountains, lakes and seashore. It can also look unkempt and cluttered, and is probably the only state that looks better from the interstate than from state and local roads. The taxes in New Hampshire are many, some disguised as fees, but the total tax bite is no lower than in other states where I have lived. The mindset here seems to be that no one wants to pay a tax themselves, but it is perfectly all right to ask someone else to pay.
State government appears to be in perpetual denial and paralysis.
The governor is weak and ineffectual, as witnessed by the fact she couldn't deliver the state to Al Gore along with the four electoral votes that could have made him president, and her proposals to solve the education funding issue were half-baked and convoluted. The Legislature is too big and too splintered ever to get anything accomplished, and afraid to take any action that might upset someone, somewhere. If that is what I imagine it to be, a flat tax imposed on every resident of New Hampshire, I can't think of any tax more regressive. Build your own PC and shop for hardware Monitor Classifieds Use AdHound for e-mail delivery of classified ads.