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Ways and Means

I made the mistake of making a pro-tax comment on Unionleader.com

by: TimothyHorrigan

Sat Oct 24, 2009 at 14:23:56 PM EDT

I did sonething Friday which may have been a mistake: I added a pro-income tax comment to the comments section of a Union Leader article about Susan Almy's "tax summit" (which was in fact just a two-day information session.)  I was not surprised that my fellow Unionleader.com readers reacted negatively to the comment.  But I was struck by how vehemnent they were: the problem ran deeper than just one of an income tax being a bad idea.  (By the way, I just think the income tax is the least bad of a number of bad options.)
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You've Got to be Kidding Me

by: Dean Barker

Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 16:16:12 PM EST

It's amazing what you can learn about Democrats and government from columns not called Granite Status:
Meanwhile, Gov. John Lynch's favorite Republican, state Sen. Bob Odell, R-Lempster, retained his chairmanship of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, despite being in the minority, and will also continue serving on the Finance committee and Energy, Environment and Economic Development
Good thing we fought so hard for our majorities.

Extra credit for the wonkish hamster who can tell me how Ways and Means intersects with the education funding amendment.

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