Supporters of SB 11, the bill that would allow a new layer of bureaucracy for the purpose of taxing and managing intermunicipal water districts, are waging a public relations campaign on the premise that the opponents of the bill are seeing things that are not there. Unfortunately for them, the real problem is that there is nothing in the bill to prevent any of the things we see.
Call us cynical but we do not trust rules-makers and bureaucrats to imagine limitations on their authority that are not spelled out clearly. In fact, as proper cynics, we do not even give them much credit for constraining themselves when the language seems clear. The language in SB11 fails on all counts.
So I have begun my own counter-campaign on that premise, and emailed the entire New Hampshire House Republican email list with the email below. Feel free to use this premise or one similar as you reach out to your own representatives.
And a reminder. Water, water rights, property rights, and fair taxation are not partisan issues. It is your well, your water, your rain and run-off , and your money that could be taxed; no matter what we’d like the words in SB11 to mean, there is no specific language in it that seeks first and foremost to protect the people of New Hampshire. Until such language does exist this effort must be opposed.