What are the elected politicians afraid of? When it comes to letting the voters decide whether they wish to live under a tax cap, you know their greatest fear is that it WILL pass, and the big spenders, powerful BECAUSE of their ongoing largesse, will then be discovered to have nothing else to offer the people– especially innovative solutions. Thus, some will be left with few options other than to skulk quietly away into the sunset.
Here’s the latest from our friends at the New Hampshire Advantage Coalition, as the politicians in both Concord and Manchester seek to thwart the people’s right to vote on tax caps in their respective cities this November:
Concord and Manchester Taxpayer’s get their day in Court
Manchester, NH – In the wake of an obvious political move to ignore the will of taxpayers in Concord and Manchester, NHAC and a group of local taxpayers in both communities filed an injunction to get their respective spending/tax caps on the November 2008 ballot. Those hearings have now been scheduled and the dates of those hearings are as follows:
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 9:00 am in Merrimack Superior Court for Concord and Friday, September 26, 2008 at 9:00 am in Hillsborough County Superior Court North for Manchester.
“What we witnessed during the last few weeks was political posturing at its worst. A group of elected official’s unfortunate decision to ignore the law has brought us to this request for court action. The will of 6,000 plus taxpayers was usurped by the need of a few politicians to keep the tax and spend train on the tracks.” said Michael Biundo, Chairman NHAC.
The effort to limit spending in the communities of Rochester, Somersworth, Concord and Manchester garnered the signatures of over 8,000 registered voters combined. In recent weeks NHAC has been fielding calls from local taxpayers and taxpayer groups from across New Hampshire and plans on releasing our next group of targeted towns in the coming weeks.
Doesn’t it suck to have to go through all this simply to ask the inhabitants of a place a basic question of whether or not to cap the rate of increase to spending and therefore taxes?
