Be glad you don’t live in MA. They’ve got registration fees, inspection fees, sales tax, income tax, etc. Once implemented, taxes don’t go away.

If a nuclear bomb were dropped on MA, the only thing left would be the taxes.

Who lives with the consequences if they kill themselves? Can you not see this as the better of the two outcomes?

What is XXY? Love to hear your non-insane take…

I consider it the towns that are close to Everett turn pike and 93. Manchester south.

New Hampshire’s state motto is literally live free or die. If things like this matter then change the motto

I thought it was Franconia.

You can't inspect a vehicle in MA unless it's registered. At least 12+ years ago. Might be different now.

In NH you can buy an inspection on an unregistered car.

That adds up to $4 million/year according to the article. If it didn’t come from inspections it’d have to come from somewhere else or we pave/plow less.

Combine that with drunk, distracted, or aggressive driving and it's a recipe for disaster.

Depends on station. Some charge $20. Others charge $50. Highest I've seen is $65.

Happened to me with the Midas shop South Willow. Tiny little hole where muffler joins to the exhaust pipe. $15 inspection fee.

Failed inspection. Wanted $1500 on a car valued around $4000 to replace entire exhaust system from the cat. Didn't want to patch which would have cost maybe $50.

So there are unscrupulous inspection stations out there. State should direct their ire on them, IHMO.

VIP is free to veterans! Extra care in Manchester, Hooksett, Berlin is 14.95

Only $3.50 from each sticker goes to the state. Rest goes to the inspection station.

Are you buying bottom-of-the-barrel tires and driving them 30,000 miles a year?

You can self test by using the penny trick or getting a dread depth meter which is probably like $5 on Amazon.

Yeah, but registration/plates are separated from state safety inspections. At least in NH and Mass.

No but they will pull you over if you have an expired plate/registration even from another state.

Ha. Used to do that as a kid in MA. MA inspections aren't linked to your birthday month like in NH. So you would gamble by driving into the expiration period and then get it inspected for a bonus month. Not sure if that still works.

Funny how the "omg you're denying science" group is denying science regarding intersex babies

Actually there's many examples of botched circumcisions where they force the boy to be a girl bc docs fucked up. It's still an unconsented to genital surgery on infants that permanently alters sensitivity

$3.50 of each sticker is earmarked for state.

I live north of concord, it’s definitely Manchester and below.

Concord isn’t even remotely southern NH. Completely different culture than the areas south of Manchester. It doesn’t have the “stick up my ass” attitude of those who live north of the whites either. Kind of a central nh area of its own.

What slur?

I'm not worried about the people who choose to voluntarily purchase an inspection.

Those cars are going to be on average more roadworthy than cars of drivers who shrink from their responsibility to maintain their vehicle that's driven on public roads.

Oh, absolutely. I agree with you 100%. I just did a quick bit of googling and said this might be the reason. I've never spent much time looking into it.