New federal regulations make it easier to build and buy classic car replicas

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Originally Posted by eschaider

Having lived in New England for more than a decade (before moving to, of all places, California) I can say with certainty that all the states have an insatiable appetite for increased taxes. The only exception (for a while) was New Hampshire and now even they have slid into the swampy waters. Only New York and California are more tax revenue intense.

Eventually you get the government you deserve, as the saying goes. The best fix is to vote down new taxes and reset lower or better yet sunset, older taxes. The corrective path can take a life time. The better solution is to move out to a lower tax state. When you do you can then spend your free time enjoying life instead of cleaning up some tax debacle left behind by a tax happy electorate who wanted a nanny sort of relationship with their government.

We lived in MA from 86-96 and it is my understanding that the way most of New England, e.g., MA, CT, RI, and as time goes on, others, is that each little town is a tax entity unto itself. So if one town has a good commercial base and another is mostly residential (as it was in our area in north central MA) the one town might have a 30% high property tax for the same/extremely comparable house in an adjacent town. Same for other personal property taxes like cars and boats - they might be different from town to town. We saw that shift happen in Westminster when the DEC plant closed (I worked for DEC and lived next door in Gardner.) Unlike the federal government, most of them won't operate at a deficit since they can't print/mint their own money (any more).