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GROKTALK!: Funding Schools with Property Taxes Is Unconstitutional

November 4, 2025November 3, 2025 GrokTALK!

This week, Tom Murray from the Government Integrity Project joins me to explain why we are in a constitutional crisis in New Hampshire and what School Funding has to do with it. Note: Resolved a sketchy audio issue in the first two minutes. Sound is excellent after that. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may … Read more

GrokTALK!: So, About Those Property Taxes…

October 27, 2025 GrokTALK!

This week on GrokTALK! It’s property taxes. A movement is rising to ban them, which is great, but what do we replace them with (and sadly, it can’t be nothing)? Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, … Read more

UNDERWOOD: Schools – What Could be Fairer than This?

October 18, 2025 Ian Underwood

Andru Volinsky is asking people to think about what is fair in the context of raising money to pay for schools. Here’s the answer I gave him. We can think about that by considering the following story. One day, Pat and Chris came to do some shopping at Mr. Volinsky’s Grocery Store. Each of them … Read more

SMITH: Daniel Richard’s Remonstrance and Julius Soti’s CACR

September 22, 2025 Julie Smith

SO, as to avoid rewriting a previous article, I will refer you to this link in case you haven’t already read it. A few others and I RSVPed to Daniel Richard and met him in Concord to sign the paperwork he prepared for his school funding-related remonstrance. Tom Murray, Nurse Terese, Dan Melvin, Deb Roux, Doris, and … Read more

RICHARD: Remonstrance to Repeal NH’s Unconstitutional Education Property Tax

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 Daniel Richard

Please join me tomorrow when we (concerned citizens and taxpayers) file this Remonstrance with the General Court (the legislature) to restore parental choice in education, and repeal the unconstitutional property tax forced upon us by government to fund their indoctrination centers called public schools! Please PM me for time and location! https://x.com/DRichardNH https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100053269301465 To the … Read more

Is Pre-K Driving Up Property Taxes and Harming Kids?

March 21, 2025 Rob Roper

It’s been asked a lot lately with budgetary challenges running up against a lack of tax capacity, and the backdrop of DOGE findings of government waste at the federal level, “Do our elected representatives ever go back and evaluate the programs they pass to see if they are working as promised?” Not really, no. And … Read more

Property Tax – A Tax on Money One MIGHT Receive

February 22, 2025 Anonymous

I’m sure you’ve all thought about property tax, especially when it comes time to pay them. But have you ever considered how they work? Aside from the fact that NH schools are funded by them – and you’d think that property taxes were the only funding, but they’re not. The Concord school system receives approximately … Read more

Commission Assigned to Solve Property Tax Crisis Suggests More Taxes/”Bake Sales”

October 19, 2024 Rob Roper

Before we get into the meat of today’s topic, here’s a quick review of how property tax reform has gone down in Vermont since Act 60 became law in 1997: Property taxes go through the roof…. A critical mass of voters howl…. The Democrat-controlled legislature promises in public they’ll do something about it, but in … Read more

A Pathetic Mea Culpa

October 3, 2024 Laurie Ortolano

On September 24, 2024, the Board of Alderman meeting opened a conversation regarding the new “surprise” assessments received by property owners that weekend. The Mayor explained that properties throughout the City had increased but had no hard data to support his numbers. Congratulating homeowners on their average 20% increases in their assessed values to highlight … Read more

Another Nashua Sandbagging

September 26, 2024 Laurie Ortolano

This past Saturday, property owners were taken aback by the unexpected arrival of letters announcing new 2024 statistical citywide assessments. The suddenness of this news, even catching our elected Alderman off guard, sparked a wave of surprise and concern that reverberated across social media for two days, with nearly 1000 posts. Why is this so … Read more

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Your House is My ATM

May 9, 2022 Ian Underwood

An interesting thing happened in Croydon on Saturday. At a special school district meeting, 377 people decided that the voters who attended the annual meeting in March hadn’t offered enough charity ($800,000) to parents of school-aged children, so they gathered to extort more (an extra $900,000) through the threat of force (give us the money, or we’ll take your house).

PSA – Spending Caps and The Rooms and Meals Tax

April 25, 2021 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire’s Republican Majority has done some decent work on lowering taxes in this year’s session. Two of the measures they are promoting including returning more rooms and meals (sales) tax revenue to cities and towns. Another is a spending cap bill.

New Hampshire Property Tax is the Highest in the Nation

September 18, 2019
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New Hampshire property tax is highest in the nation. NH ranks 50th out of 50 states in terms of property tax burden. That is as measured in per $1,000 of personal income by ALEC’s Rich State Poor State2019. That, as they say, is an opportunity to improve. As J. C. Watts, Jr wrote, “Death and … Read more

“Ax The Property Tax” and Replace it With What?

April 11, 2021August 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Mark Fernald is a Democrat running for the New Hampshire State Senate. His campaign signs say “Ax the Property Tax.” If that sounds too good to be true it is because it is.