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Rattlesnake Guy · 08-25-2007, 10:18 PM

The only point I would like to make is that when I go to the town meeting back home in a small town in NH it gives me great sense of value to see the spending of the property tax is controlled by the local group trying to limit the tax rate. Every expenditure is put into terms of what it will cost a resident if they live in a $300,000 home or a $500,000 home. The discussion ensues like it should. The things worth doing get done and well....

I fear that broader based tax solutions would make those same town folks try to get as much of the "free state money" as possible. You see this now when a new school is discussed and the matching funds contributed by the state are treated as free.

We are the state.

Keep it local so it people spend like it is their own money....it is.

08-25-2007, 10:18 PM	#59
Rattlesnake Guy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,254 Thanks: 423 Thanked 366 Times in 175 Posts	Keep it local The only point I would like to make is that when I go to the town meeting back home in a small town in NH it gives me great sense of value to see the spending of the property tax is controlled by the local group trying to limit the tax rate. Every expenditure is put into terms of what it will cost a resident if they live in a $300,000 home or a $500,000 home. The discussion ensues like it should. The things worth doing get done and well.... I fear that broader based tax solutions would make those same town folks try to get as much of the "free state money" as possible. You see this now when a new school is discussed and the matching funds contributed by the state are treated as free. We are the state. Keep it local so it people spend like it is their own money....it is.