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New Hampshire’s Revenue Structure
By Laura Knoy on Thursday, October 22, 2009.
This week the State House Ways and Means Committee will host a two day summit to discuss how well the state’s revenue structure fits the state economy. Educators, business people, economists and national tax experts will talk about what the current situation of New Hampshire’s revenue structure is and what they perceive it may be in the near future. We’ll talk with participants of that conference and learn more about the pros and cons of different revenue ideas for the state.
Guests
- Susan Almy, Democratic state representative from Lebanon and chair of the House Ways and Means Committee; she organized the Revenue Information Session
- Jeb Bradley, Republican state senator from Wolfeboro, member of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and former US Congressman from New Hampshire's 1st District
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It's too bad they did not invite LOCAL taxpayer groups who really represent NH citizens, instead of the Rockefeller and Soros-funded front groups ITEP and GSFTC who shill for socialism to invade NH and shill for an income tax too.
SHAME on Susan Almy!
She and her rich outsider friends are hell-bent on destroying NH.
How DARE they talk about taxes at a time like this?
Join us REAL NH CITIZENS for a MASSIVE PROTEST that day outside this phony 'summit' of the elitist wealthy outsiders.
I just moved to NH for two reasons:
1. Tax structure. Others are seeing the same thing I saw and are moving to NH. More taxes are not better. Less taxes mean that the job of govt is harder and more limited. You can't have everything.
2. On a different topic, WorkForce housing... I just moved from NC, where we had lots of it. Understand that housing, like most things, is a balance of supply and demand. If the goverment artificially creates an imbalance to provide feel-good low income housing, the only advantage is a block of dependent low-income voters. We have names for work force housing in the south such as Projects and Ghettos. I just moved to get out of these decisions by government. Please do not make NH look like other states.
Raymond McGill
Look, there is hardly a family in the country who has not CUT BACK and looked at every item in the family budget. Most have cut their own spending. ALL the economic reports confirm this.
Conversely, our elite political class is ONLY looking at increasing REVENUE & TAXES at every level of government.
How about a seminar on SPENDING CUTS instead of increasing taxes and revenue?
They have the cart before the horse ...AGAIN.
Just ask WE THE PEOPLE. What world are our elite political class living in?
I guess they will find out at the next election.
We don't have a spending problem in New Hampshire. We have a revenue problem. Everyone knows that it takes money to have services in any state. Every government needs revenue to function and New Hampshire has no reliable source of revenue. What we need is some kind of broad base tax to support the delivery of those services to our citizens. As it stands now, NH is not doing too badly compared to the financial trouble other states, who have a tax base for revenue, are in. That tells me we understand how to spend correctly. We all need to stop whining about our state's over spending and look logically at the reality of the problem, which is that we have no revenue to support the services we want: safety in our cities and towns, good education for our children, well kept roads and parks, just to name a few. I applaud this group for having the guts to understand the source of our financial problems and actually take a hard look at our revenue sources. Somebody, somewhere, sometime is going to have to say the "unspeakable" in New Hampshire. If we want a government that provides services to it's people, if we want to continue to enjoy the quality of life we've all come to expect in NH, we have to pay for those services and that quality of life through taxes. That's the social contract we agreed to follow as a society. Without it, it will all fall apart.