Worried about property taxes? Attend one of the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute’s county state budget presentations. Google its schedule. NHFPI is a nonpartisan research nonprofit; the session I attended was clear, concise and packed with charts and answers.
You got one thing right: New Hampshire’s property taxes are painfully high and hit middle-class families and seniors hard. Everything else is partisan spin.
Our heavy reliance on property taxes isn’t some Republican conspiracy. It’s the direct result of New Hampshire’s decades-long core governing philosophy: no income tax, no sales tax, and local control. This model has kept the state competitive and attractive for decades.
Recent GOP-led business tax cuts strengthened that edge, not broke it.
The real driver of rising bills is unchecked government spending — especially on public schools. New Hampshire spends over $21,000–$23,000 per pupil on education, among the highest in the nation, even as enrollment plummets and test scores continually trend downward. Bloated administration, unfunded mandates, pensions, and inefficiency in hundreds of tiny districts are what’s crushing taxpayers — not “gifts” to the wealthy.
Democrats and their allies love scapegoating “the rich” and pushing redistribution. Their solution? Force high earners to pay 5–7% effective rates so the government can keep expanding and maintain control. This ignores that successful residents and businesses already pay substantial property taxes and create the economic growth that broadens our tax base. Chasing them out with higher taxes, as seen in high-tax blue states, only leaves everyone else with bigger bills.
Education Freedom Accounts don’t “siphon” funds — they let parents direct a fraction of the per-pupil money to better options for their kids.
Competition and choice threaten the public school monopoly, which is why the left fights them so fiercely. Enough with the class warfare and “it takes a village” slogans. Property tax relief comes from spending restraint, efficiency reforms, and preserving New Hampshire’s low-tax advantage — not surrendering to big-government tax-and-spend policies that have failed elsewhere. Voters should reject this tired redistribution playbook.
Typical MEPD, ignore the obvious contradiction of having wealthy people paying less taxes than less affluent people, a Republican staple, and at the same time trying to excuse the massive overspending on the Education Freedom Accounts, all while blaming public schools. Pathetic.
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Linda,
You got one thing right: New Hampshire’s property taxes are painfully high and hit middle-class families and seniors hard. Everything else is partisan spin.
Our heavy reliance on property taxes isn’t some Republican conspiracy. It’s the direct result of New Hampshire’s decades-long core governing philosophy: no income tax, no sales tax, and local control. This model has kept the state competitive and attractive for decades.
Recent GOP-led business tax cuts strengthened that edge, not broke it.
The real driver of rising bills is unchecked government spending — especially on public schools. New Hampshire spends over $21,000–$23,000 per pupil on education, among the highest in the nation, even as enrollment plummets and test scores continually trend downward. Bloated administration, unfunded mandates, pensions, and inefficiency in hundreds of tiny districts are what’s crushing taxpayers — not “gifts” to the wealthy.
Democrats and their allies love scapegoating “the rich” and pushing redistribution. Their solution? Force high earners to pay 5–7% effective rates so the government can keep expanding and maintain control. This ignores that successful residents and businesses already pay substantial property taxes and create the economic growth that broadens our tax base. Chasing them out with higher taxes, as seen in high-tax blue states, only leaves everyone else with bigger bills.
Education Freedom Accounts don’t “siphon” funds — they let parents direct a fraction of the per-pupil money to better options for their kids.
Competition and choice threaten the public school monopoly, which is why the left fights them so fiercely. Enough with the class warfare and “it takes a village” slogans. Property tax relief comes from spending restraint, efficiency reforms, and preserving New Hampshire’s low-tax advantage — not surrendering to big-government tax-and-spend policies that have failed elsewhere. Voters should reject this tired redistribution playbook.
Typical MEPD, ignore the obvious contradiction of having wealthy people paying less taxes than less affluent people, a Republican staple, and at the same time trying to excuse the massive overspending on the Education Freedom Accounts, all while blaming public schools. Pathetic.
If you really want to reply to Linda MEPD, you should write an actual letter to the editor, as it's clear she doesn't subscribe and see your screeds here. I've noticed you've never written so the public can see your insane screeds; why is that? What are you afraid of?
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