All State taxes are mandatory.
But since there is no ''donation'', it isn't a donor town to Franklin.
And since the Education Trust Fund grant money that does go to the other districts comes from mostly business taxes... that also would not be a significant factor in Moultonborough.
Moultonborough went from a farming community to a bedroom community, and it did so in about on half century.
But what does the next half century look like? That is the question that town voters will need to answer.
They may not get it right, but it almost certainly will not be what it is today.
Franklin was a huge mill town (city)... and it was doubtful that the voters at that time realized that the mills would not be there in the future. So it has suffered while it looks to rebuild on a different path.
What will Moultonborough be a half century from now? Right now, they are riding the Boomer Wave.
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