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Originally Posted by Woodsy
FLL...
Are you for real? Your going to DENY veterans... you know the men & women who FIGHT and DIE for the very freedoms you enjoy on a daily basis?? All for some pittance of tax money?
WOW!
Woodsy
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Before a veteran can collect the benefits of a veteran's pension, and the addition of Tri-Care health & dental insurance in addition to standard medicare, they first have to have served for 20-years service, and then reach the age of 65, so the veterans have their own set of rules for qualifying for veteran's benefits too. So if the military has a twenty year service rule before one is allowed to collect any benefits, then why do the NH Veteran's go city and state tax free after an individual veteran attendee had had say four years of service?
Is the veteran's campground, open for three months/year, and paying no city or state taxes, helping or hurting the Weirs Beach jobs and tourist business economy?
Money is important as everybody knows, and that 8-acre property was home to a beatifull hotel that burnt down in 1923, and then the NH politicians and the NH veterans cooked up a plan so the state bought the property for the veterans.
I don't deny the veterans to have a local home, I just think it would be better economically for the weirs area to just load all their old, funky buildings onto a moving trailer and haul them across town to the state land occupied by the former Laconia State School, and then try to get a "Meredith" style hotel built in that spot that could be a stronger business and attract tourists all year around.