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QOTD: Former Portsmouth Mayor on Stephen's Plan

by: William Tucker

Thu Jul 15, 2010 at 14:46:12 PM EDT
Former Portsmouth mayor Steve Marchand on Republican gubernatorial candidate John Stephen's "First in the Nation" plan:

"It was disturbing to me that his plan would result in dramatic decreases in aid to local government, which means dramatic increases to local property taxes - the highest we have ever seen as a state... To make a statement like this without really any specifics as to how to do it - as somebody who knows the numbers, it almost certainly means dramatic increases in local property taxes."

Cross-posted on Miscellany Blue.
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QOTD: Former Portsmouth Mayor on Stephen's Plan | 5 comments
Well put. (4.00 / 1)
You gotta like this guy.
Decrease in aid to local government --> decrease in school funding. (4.00 / 1)
Raise your hand if you're for fewer teachers in our state.

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The taxpayer group (4.00 / 1)
in our town would like to eliminate teaching positions and increase class size.  They're very upfront about it.  They have gotten nowhere with it, but the discussion always worries me - scare people enough and they'll do crazy things at school district meeting.

In the immediate aftermath of Since the start of the financial crisis, the Fed/Treasury lent, spent, or guaranteed $28 $29 trillion to save the banking system.
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Good Job By Both Steves... (0.00 / 0)
...and Stephen has no plan.  Just a rehash of past Republican failures.  Sounds like the campaign talking points my old friend Jay Lucas had long ago when he ran against another good incumbent Democratic Governor.  I wonder the relationship.  
Any of us (4.00 / 1)
who have been part of our local governments, as I have as selectwoman and on many committees, knows what reducing funding to the towns and cities will mean.  We are very lean on services as it is in NH, but these guys apparently think if they take them away, we will all just buy them privately, which appears to be their goal.  Except most of us, the rest of us, can't afford to do that.  

I'm going to start calling them the gated community folks.

QOTD: Former Portsmouth Mayor on Stephen's Plan | 5 comments

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