Call it the return of Taxachusetts, the state's old moniker from the 1970s and 1980s before a string of GOP Governors were elected to hold the line.
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New Hampshire's tax phobia even influenced Taxachusetts to the south, where popular pressure has made the Bay State much more reasonable (compared with the rest of the Northeast) in its income tax--which is flat--as well as its property taxes.