Wrong. New Hampshire does not, and never did, have a general sales or income tax. Nor can towns levy local sales taxes. NH does have a interest and dividend tax, but it has a high threshold and exemptions.

While we don't have a statewide sales or income tax, most pay property taxes, either directly, or through rents. And many of us pay a sales tax, particularly in smaller communities. So it's not a free ride.

Yep, we get a welfare check every year, but that is likely to end when the stark fiscal enormity of what Alaska faces finally sinks in. So spend it wisely. But it does not, and never has, come "compliments of the oil companies". It's OUR oil, and we are selling it to the oil companies, albeit at fire-sale rates. But that's another story. If the oil companies were giving us "complimentary" cash, other than the pittance that they drip to charities for "goodwill", they would be rightly sued by their stockholders.

Lawmakers doing likewise should get the boot. Stupid, stupid us.