Property Taxes

Is This A Coincidence?

February 21, 2013

Just wondering.

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Annie McKluster Doesn’t Pay Her Taxes? [Updated & Bumped]

February 5, 2013

The New Hampshire Young Republicans (NHYR) want to know why Congress-critter Ann McLane Kuster (I prefer McKluster) is worth an estimated $1.8 million dollars but can’t manage to pay her property taxes? “While Annie Kuster pushes a message that we all need to chip in a little extra, she has failed to pay her fair [ Read more ]

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Data Point – It’s the TOTAL tax burden, you ninnies (and not just the property tax)

October 23, 2012

When it comes to taxes paid, what really matters when getting down to brass tacks, is the total amount that is hoovered up by Government.  Once again, we see that NH does well indeed: The top 10 states with the lowest tax burdens as a percentage of state income are as follows: Alaska, 7.0 percent [ Read more ]

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Democrat Maggie Hassan – Lives In A Half Million Dollar Home, Pays No Property Taxes

October 16, 2012

The Duchess of Phillips Exeter…yeah, she’s in touch with the average New Hampshire taxpayer….not.

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It’s A NH Democrat Bill Kennedy Kind Of Morning…This Time It’s About Tax Burden

August 14, 2012

Bill is probably a great guy, and I’m sure he never meant to violate Department of Defense regulations by posting images of himself in uniform on a campaign web site.  But that’s not the only thing that caught my eye while I was there.  Bill is also guilty of lying by omission. You see, while [ Read more ]

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Mark Fernald Needs New Material for His Income Tax Arguments

July 23, 2012

Mark Fernald wants New Hampshire to have an income tax before he dies.  It appears to be one of his deepest desires.  So desperate is this need that he is willing to reuse debunked rhetoric to ensure he is not prohibited from having the chance to get one. Yesterday, over at Windham Patch, Fernald had [ Read more ]

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(Repost-Flashback!) Seth Marshall Discovers Property Taxes

April 22, 2012

As part of Remembering Democrat Rule – another post from the past… Seth Marshall Discovers Property Taxes Originally posted Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 09:04PM Hat tip out of the gate to fellow NHI front pager Richard Olsen Jr. for this fine bit or wordsmithing on Democrat Rep Seth Marshall’s brief letter to the Nashua Telegraph about a [ Read more ]

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Bar Stool Economics

July 1, 2011

Left wing tax policy and the class warfare rhetoric they use to advance it crumbles in the face of even the most simplistic analysis. Take the left wing war on the wealthy. They argue that the rich do not pay their fair share even though the rich pay most of the taxes. Here in New Hampshire the Mark Fernald wing of the democrat party apes this ridiculous technique on the matter of New Hampshire property taxes, a notion upon which the social justice mavens and the Granite State “Fair Tax” Coalition are meant to agitate. But neither claim holds water and this cross post from CNHT explains why.

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Granite State Fair Tax Spins And Spins And Spins

March 16, 2011

To sell you on this Utopian elixir of piss, GSFTC argues that New Hampshire’s property taxes favor the rich, and most recently have sent out a pile of nonsense with some misleading graphs, through Fernald’s email list to make the sale. But as usual it is spun upside down and backwards and ignores one very unassailable fact. New Hampshire has one of the lowest overall tax burdens in the nation because it relies on property taxes.

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The Cost of Defining “Adequate” In Merrimack NH

March 1, 2011

I announced that if you took the total Merrimack School budget and divided it by the total student enrollment that it cost more than the sending your kid to UNH. This appears to have riled some people up. In fact someone sent me an nice itemized list of the “costs” of sending your kid to UNH for a year just to prove I was wrong, and to justify how Merrimack’s cost per child wasn’t as much.

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What Tax is Fair?

October 3, 2010

The Granite State Fair Tax folks are back trolling for a broad based tax on the idea that it is more fair?  Fair to whom?  That’s always the question but it never tries to address why we need a tax, and why we need to control how much of it the government can collect, or [ Read more ]

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Why Property Taxes?

May 25, 2010

I have argued at great length on why relying primarily on local property taxes are the best mechanism for keeping government small.  But no matter how often I bring it up someone always tries to make the point that it’s not fair.  Why should the people who actually own the physical land in the state [ Read more ]

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