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Originally Posted by Yankee
I say let's raise the property tax and fix the roads! That will fix everything! The quicker the better that we subjegate the local ne'er-do-wells in these parts...even though we are here but 10-20 weeks a year we come with our money and such deserve to make NH in like MA, or CT, or NY!!!! WE deserve to have SMOOTH pavement, dammit! The sooner we annex the lakes region and make it Northern Massachutsetts the better!! Where does this madness stop? Obviously not at the border anymore, and it is now reaching ever farther north to where I call home.
I apologize for the rant, and I do realize that progress and thus development is an inevitable, if regretful way of life, however beotching in this or any current thread about the condition of the roads does not endear you to the local folk who live here. Even though have you have the $$ to vacation here, you would do well to tread lightly...but I digress.
Does anyone in this forum ever wonder why all but a few members are not local to the lakes region?
Thought not.
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I think there's a few inside oif this here discussion that are taking a kinda ironic tack - that 109 was one of the 'shovel ready' stimulus projects...and that the present state of the road is something of a metaphor for the initiative as a whole. At least that's the ongoing laugh that a few folks and I have at the present state.
Seeing as though the NH constitution mandates that revenue generated by the gas tax be used to maintain the roads - and that the road in question is one used by allotta folks that come here and gladly pay the 9% room and meals tax that helps balance the books - I think commenting on its roughness ain't beyond the pale.
Besides, it don't matter too much in that the frost heaves will be long gone by the time the summer folks return.