Thank God we don't have that in Texas. We also don't have a state income tax but they eat you alive when it come's to property taxes. I lived in Louisiana for 13 years and they have a state income tax. However, their property taxes are dirt cheap. In 1993, I purchased a house for 75,000.00 FRN's. My property taxes were only between 3 and 4 hundred FRN's a year. I had Allstate Home Owner's Insurance, their deluxe policy and it was only a little over 400 FRN's a year.
Sorry about getting off the main thread but has anyone here ever checked out this site?
www.6towns.com/
They have some pretty good info on obtaining an IDP(International Drivers Permit) plus some other interesting things. I talked to the lady who I believe owns the site, Claudia Monticelo. She's very nice and understandable.