New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It’s one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education–the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap–and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk…. The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.
