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QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Tue May 18, 2010 at 06:03:07 AM EDT


Karen Testerman:
By opening the flood gates to allow towns to assess their own Rooms and Meals taxes they are breaking New Hampshire into hundreds of small taxing governments.  This scheme isn't going to work.
I totally agree. Breaking New Hampshire up into hundreds of small taxing governments is a scheme that ultimately isn't going to work.

But the ghosts of Meldrim Thomson and William Loeb cast long shadows, so we don't really have a choice on the predominant revenue structure in the Granite State, do we?

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Oh, my head! (0.00 / 0)
I can't keep track of GOPers. I thought they LIKED local control?

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden

No (4.00 / 1)
GOPers like campaigning and talking points.  They might say they like one policy or another, but the truth is they have no interest in governing; they just have an interest in opposing doing anything.

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Logical extension... (0.00 / 0)
...I assume that Testerman will now call for the elimination of local property taxes, replacing them with a unified, fair, broad-based statewide tax.

What, no?  


Houses & dogs (0.00 / 0)
Both of the "small taxing governments" in which I own property are running a scheme to tax said properties. This has been going on for a couple of centuries. Does Ms. Testerman oppose it?

It might interest her to know that the "small taxing government" in which my primary domicile is located also levies a local tax on my canine companions. I have to register each one and pay a "fee," aka the "dog tax." Is she planning to do something about it?


Cars too (0.00 / 0)
Don't forget after the local property taxes and the dog fees, there are some pretty hefty car "fees" in Meldrim's home town.

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