Mar
10
CNHT eBlast 3/10/2008
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Taxpayers rejected millions in spending at 2008 NH town meetings where they controlled the show, the spending, and ultimately their taxes, which are property-based. This has always been the best system and will continue to be, for this reason—local control.
From a recent article in the Union Leader: “Gov. John Lynch, a popular Democrat, voted against the resolution at his Town Meeting in Hopkinton, and would take the pledge in his expected run for a third term, his office has said. Republican state Sen. Joseph Kenney, who may run against Lynch, says he would take it too.”
Granite State Fair Tax Coalition is a front group for the World Council of Churches aka the United Nations. The UN of course is a bloated bureuacratic NGO that would like to count, tax and control everything in the universe and would like the ’sharing of the wealth’ ‘within and across’ nations.
All candidates are cordially invited to the CNHT picnic on July 5th where our theme will be “Celebrating the Pledge”! They are already lining up to take it. The picnic will be held in Hopkinton, home of our own Governor Lynch. We expect him to attend and sign it at that time.
Since Governor Lynch himself voted AGAINST the anti-pledge resolution at his own Hopkinton Town Meeting and his spokesperson said that he would take The Pledge if he runs for office again we wonder what is the next tactic that will be used to dupe the voters into rejection of the Pledge in this non-binding resolution? Lynch has promised to veto any broadbased bill that comes across his desk. (He gets some things right…)
The United Nations World Council of Churches will continue to be blocked in its effort to centralize NH’s way of taxation and redistribute the wealth, under cover of a supposedly local group called “Granite State Fair Tax Coalition” that inappropriately infiltrated NH town meetings.
Jane Aitken
Board of Directors, CNHT
136 North Main Street
Concord, NH 03301
Mar
21
CNHT eBlast 03/21/2007
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Just got a call about the reversal of the conviction of James Tobin in the 2002 phone jamming case.
If Chuck McGee had the dough he would not have a record either.
Now how do the liberal Democrats hide the Buckley case and live off the phone jamming bonanza they ran an entire campaign on?
I have read the federal statutes about this case and you have to prove intent.
For the conviction of Chuck McGee to stand when he was on the phone early in the morning calling the company making the calls to stop them when he found it was illegal is a tough call.
Check the phone records. Chuck was franticly calling every couple minutes, but the firm started making calls 90 minutes before he got through and stopped it.
Under NH law he could have hired a local firm and called himself and not committed a crime. It was using an out of state firm that triggered the federal statute.
In the world of hard ball politics all kinds of things happen.
Conservatives have suffered mail tampering. I have had my mail tampered with. Right to Life had the Governor’s office diverting calls to their answering machine just last month. Non-residents and illegal aliens vote in NH and a 17 year old Republican in Londonderry gets convicted. The Democrat Party Chair has a sign stealing and non-resident vote scam run out of her house. Someone tried to burn down the Republican party HQ in Concord.
Its always best to run a clean and legal campaign but when prosecution is reserved for one side only and the other uses it for political gain it sure is sweet when it blows up in their face like today.
I wonder what Ray Buckley the next Democrat Party chair has to say.
Just my opinion.
Ed Naile, CNHT
Mar
11
CNHT eBlast 03/11/2007
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Here is the bill [HB 804] to get rid of the “view assessments” Avitar has created and abused.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Appraisal Of Taxable Property; Full and True Value; View Excluded. Amend RSA 75:1 to read as follows:
75:1 How Appraised. The selectmen shall appraise open space land pursuant to RSA 79-A:5, open space land with conservation restrictions pursuant to RSA 79-B:3, land with discretionary easements pursuant to RSA 79-C:7, residences on commercial or industrial zoned land pursuant to RSA 75:11, earth and excavations pursuant to RSA 72-B, and all other taxable property at its market value. Market value means the property’s full and true value as the same would be appraised in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor, provided, however that full and true value shall not consider any value of a scenic view or other view external to a property. The selectmen shall receive and consider all evidence that may be submitted to them relative to the value of property, the value of which cannot be determined by personal examination.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect April 1, 2007.
Ed Naile, CNHT
Dec
19
CNHT eBlast 12/19/2006
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Gary Rayno Lays An Eggo
The much anticipated “explanation” of the View Tax will have to wait a while because NH Sunday News reporter, Gary Rayno, who sat like a lump through the Assessing Standards Board Meeting in Concord Wednesday regurgitated the Boards line about there being no View Tax.
What a shame.
He did not add to his story the juicy stuff like this tax is the creation of an assessing board that formerly consisted of up to 75% assessors.
One of which WAS Gary Roberge, head of AVITAR Assessing.
The View Tax software of AVITAR the state’s largest assessing firm who’s software has had other “glitches” such as assessing small lots of land at five times their real value. Or that Avitar doesn’t quite follow the Assessing Standards Board’s own rules if they don’t feel like it.
Or how about the way the View Tax is adopted as law?
Is the View tax an act of the Legislature - NO.
Did town legislative bodies create it - NO.
Selectmen, Town Councilors, Aldermen - NO.
It came from a BUREAUCRACY.
The View Tax is the creation of :
CHAPTER 21-J
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE ADMINISTRATION
General Provisions
Section 21-J:1
21-J:1 Establishment; General Functions. –
I. There is established the department of revenue administration, an agency of the state, under the executive direction of a commissioner of revenue administration.
II. The department of revenue administration, through its officials, shall be responsible for the following general functions:
(a) Overseeing the collection of state taxes, assigned by specific tax law.
(b) Providing information collected through tax administration activities to the governor and general court for public policy decisions. This information shall not include material which identifies, or permits identification of, particular taxpayers.
(c) Establishing a uniform system of financial reports and accounting for the state’s political subdivisions.
Source. 1985, 204:1. 1987, 109:3, eff. July 5, 1987; 408:3, eff. May 26, 1987.
THIS is why the ASB is so hot to trot about NOT having people think they created a new tax WHEN THEY in fact DID!
Administrative Rule Chapter 600 is the “LAW” that supplies the structure for assessors to follow while assessing property in NH. It can be found on the CNHT Web site in the Blue Field. Scroll down to REV after you click on Rule 600 and you will go to the dept. of Rev. site. Then just scroll down to 600.
Taxpayers in NH have to start being aware of what is going on in their community because there is an effort by income taxers in the Legislature and the news media to quietly move to pass any broad based tax they can get.
The property tax is not going away with any broad-based tax.
The same people who pulled this stunt will be glad to administer an income or sales tax as well. Get it?
We need to control spending and out of control assessors who police themselves.
Ed Naile, CNHT
Dec
6
CNHT eBlast 12/06/2006
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Thanks to Rep. Paul Hopfgarten and State Senator Jack Barnes!! Rep Hopfgarten, a former CNHT Director, has sponsored legislation, along with Sen Barnes, a rabid Red Sox fan, that would tighten up RSA 31:5 the emergency meeting statute so that over-eager selectmen like the ones in Peterborough can not go out and put a $50,000 deposit on a $1.6 million dollar piece of boondoggle property that could have cost up to $6 million to upgrade – BY SPECIAL EMERGENCY MEETING!! On top of that the voters in Peterborough recently voted to adopt RSA 41:14-a to further limit the ability of selectmen to do this, which the court promptly ignored when it gave permission for an “emergency” Special Meeting last month. In any case the selectmen reversed their decision when they looked closer at the deal. Our new legislation will help the next town’s taxpayers. Thanks to the Peterborough activists for doing the groundwork and CNHT Vice Chair Howard Dilworth for the bill’s wording.
We have a most heart-wrenching AP Wire Service story about the people in south west NH who still are not back in their homes after the floods last year. Norma Love is the “reporter” on this piece.
The story goes on about financial problems residents are still having such as insurance running out and the article talks about some efforts being made by State Senator Ted Gatsas to help people with state aid.
So here we are in the middle of winter a year after the floods with one single mom cooking outside on a gas grill and having to shower at a friend’s house.
And wouldn’t you know it! No mention of our heroic Governor. My how things have changed since the Gov. was last on TV in his little yellow rain slicker running around campaign-helping during the flood and handing out his home phone number. That made big news. Nice job covering his butt now Norma! What, no “Lynch Mum On Flood Help” title? (Sorry Norma, Colin Manning of Fosters already got the press job with Lynch.)
Sanbornton, Tilton, and Northfield taxpayers wake up! Your selectmen are trying to get an RSA 32 Budget Committee placed by warrant article on the Winnisquam School District Annual Meeting to control costs. You need to get active and support having a second set of eyes looking over your school spending. The Selectmen are to be commended for doing this and need signatures on the petitions and people to vote for it and run for the open seats.
A NY transplant, moobat Democrat named James E. Kennedy, just elected to the House from Exeter has placed an INCOME tax on the list of new House legislation. Liberal papers are waxing “dismayed’ by the action as it will FOSTER debate about who really believes Democrats are not TELEGRAPHING their true intentions. We will MONITOR the story for you.
Income taxers all over NH are writing letters to the editor about oppressive property taxes. They seem to think the mood and time is right for more taxes. We need to respond with the fact that along with unbridled spending, we have a suspect property tax assessment program at the state level where assessing firms can take advantage of towns and taxpayers and feel safe from State action. No broad based tax is going to make the “View Tax” go away. Voters need to do that ourselves because the State will not enforce the law. Selectmen have to hold assessors bonds until assessments are based on market value not suspect formulas.
Ed Naile
Chair, CNHT