Massachusetts Wants Residents to Pay Sales Tax…For Purchases in Tax Free New Hampshire

Massachusetts, like many other states, is in a financial crisis. But Governor Patrick has come up with a scheme to fleece Massachusetts taxpayers a little more. He is trying to demand that a store in New Hampshire charge Massachusetts residents the Massachusetts sales tax. This is just going too damn far.

Currently this is being attempted on just one business, the Town Fair Tire Centers, but if this is allowed to happen it will not end there.

Massachusetts has ordered a tire chain to charge Bay State residents a 5 percent sales tax on their purchases in New Hampshire in an unprecedented move that could have huge implications for consumers and other merchants.

Governor Patrick is desperate to raise more revenue to pay for his outlandish spending and he doesn’t like his subjects traveling over the border where they can get a better deal. In tough economic times you would think that a sensitive liberal like Deval Patrick would be happy that his subjects could save 5% on goods and services. But Deval Patrick has dollar signs in his eyes and he has found a way to fuck over Massachusetts residents once more. Or at least he thinks he has, this is being challenged in the courts.

Town Fair Tire Centers, which is based in Connecticut but has six shops in New Hampshire and 25 in Massachusetts, is fighting back with a lawsuit now before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that accuses the state of violating the US commerce clause.

Of course the Massachusetts courts don’t give a damn about the state constitution never-mind the United States constitution so the likelihood of this communist getting his way is very likely. Massachusetts wants to stop people from buying products out of state and there is a little known tax that Massachusetts residents are supposed to pay that the governor is trying to use to stop what they consider the deplorable behavior of shopping in New Hampshire.

The use tax is designed to take away an incentive for the buyer to go out of state and not pay the taxes

The problem is that this tax is not enforceable so the Massachusetts governor is going after out of state businesses. Here is a little idea, if you want to stop people from going out of state to make purchases lower your sales tax. Once the difference is negligible and it isn’t worth it for people to travel to New Hampshire, the sales will increase in the state and you will probably raise more tax revenue.

It is time for New Hampshire Governor John Lynch to grow a backbone for once and tell Deval Patrick to go to hell and stop meddling in our state. Deval Patrick and the whole liberal mindset in Massachusetts has driven too many people up here already and as recent elections have shown us they have changed the demographics here to the left.

A message to Deval Patrick; worry about your own state and leave us alone.

A message to John Lynch; show some stones for once and tell this man to go to hell.

I don’t know which is worse, Deval Patrick sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong, or John Lynch letting him.