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While in Columbus I was told that people of Ohio generally don't like Michigan and likely visa versa. I assumed it was because of the OSU & Michigan football rivalry. However, it had to do with an old war in the 1830s where the 2 states (MI was about to be a state) fought sort of. Shots were fired but nobody was killed and only 1 injury (a stabbing). Apparently they were fighting over Toledo. I can only assume Ohio lost.

Toledo War - Wikipedia

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I think we won. There is a part of Toledo called The Lost Peninsula that I think we took back from Michigan.
People with boats live up there. I'm not much of a boat person.
 
HecticArt said:
I think we won. There is a part of Toledo called The Lost Peninsula that I think we took back from Michigan.
People with boats live up there. I'm not much of a boat person.
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It was a joke, a dig.

Reading the wiki page, it wasn't much of a war. Bunch of drunk guys lining up on each side of a river and firing guns in the air and insulting each other's mothers. :) All because you guys didn't know how to properly draw maps. :)
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
It was a joke, a dig.

Reading the wiki page, it wasn't much of a war. Bunch of drunk guys lining up on each side of a river and firing guns in the air and insulting each other's mothers. :) All because you guys didn't know how to properly draw maps. :)
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It's still pretty much that way. 90 years later I think they still get drunk, line up, and shoot their guns in the air and insult each other's mothers. They probably spend more time in the bar laughing about it now though.
 
scotchandcigar said:
That's pretty effed-up. Why would they do that?
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Yeah it is! Check this out:

The Point Roberts school serves children from kindergarden through third grade. Older kids are shuttled on a 40 minute school bus ride that takes them out of the US, into British Columbia (Canada), and then back into the US again at Blaine, Washington. Then on the way home, they do it all over again.
 
When I was a child – last century – the sales tax rate in Los Angeles County was 4%. It is now 9.5%! Thirty-three citiies, including Glendale, have raised it to 10.25%! The rate in Santa Fe Springs is 10.5%! Another sales tax hike will be on the ballot in November. Measure A will add another 0.25% to the tax.

In today's mail I got an ad paid for by United Way of Greater Los Angeles: "Measure A would immediately repeal and replace the existing funding structure, due to expire in 2027, with a new approach to increase mental health care and substance abuse treatment and to prevent more people from falling into homelessness by building more affordable housing, increasing home ownership and providing emergency rental assistance."

Nowhere in the ad is the tax hike mentioned. Our stupid, gullible voters will probably approve the measure. They approve almost every tax hike – and in the case of Measure A, they may not even be aware it is a tax hike.
 
I Canada, they just pass tax increases. Our only choice is to vote out the government that does it when we get a chance.
 
Stupid, gullible California voters – I am not one of them – also vote for every school bond on the ballot. "It's for the children," declare the radio ads and television ads. The bond will be approved, the money raised will be wasted and another school bond will be on the next ballot: "It's for the children!" Those bonds add hundreds of dollars to our property taxes – and stupid, gullible voters keep approving them.
 
There's a thread for this

How does your state work?

This seemed like an interesting thread idea. Every state (or province) has their own way of doing things, like selling alcohol, or registering cars. Some of these are fairly routine; but some are effed-up or otherwise weird. To start things off, here are how some state controlled things are done...
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But anyway, New Hampshire is another stupid state, because they have NO sales tax. Which might sound great to you guys, but they also have no income tax either. So towns get most of their money from one place: property tax.

When they need money, they have no choice but to raise property tax. Or they just cut services. Many schools have stopped paying for sports, arts, and services. Parents have to pay for those themselves.

It seems to me that in both scenarios, something is wrong. Having almost no tax sources is bad, as is the need to make tax rates ridiculously high. Around here, we can just drive a few miles to another state, so that prevents any one state from getting out of control.
 
Your post got me curious. I'm reading that NH gets most of its money from taxing businesses:

New Hampshire levies two primary taxes on businesses, which are among the largest sources of revenue for the State government. The Business Profits Tax (BPT) is the single largest tax revenue source the State had in SFY 2017 at $385.8 million, and the Business Enterprise Tax (BET) was the fourth largest at $252.0 million. These two taxes are filed together and counted together.

Although the two primary business taxes have driven the lion’s share of the most recent State surpluses, two other large taxes helped drive State revenues higher after the economy picked up speed following slow growth in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 Recession. The Meals and Rentals Tax has been a reliable source of State revenue growth since approximately 2013 and was the State’s third largest tax revenue source in SFY 2017, collecting $314.8 million that was transferred to the State’s General and Education Trust Funds. This tax levies 9 percent on food or beverage purchases from restaurants and certain “to go” and prepared meals as well as on hotel room and automobile rentals.
 
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