Winnipesaukee Forum - View Single Post - Non Resident Taxpayers voting in TOWN elections

Yankee · 03-14-2010, 09:28 PM

You do not live here, you do not vote here. Period. What makes you think that you have the same rights as NH citizens? People like you from south of the border come here and are the ones raising the tax bases of all the towns here in the lakes region. You would not be in the least interested in voting if your vacation property taxes were far less than they are now.

You do not live here, you do not have family here, you do not raise your children here, you do not earn a living here, you have no stake in the community other than your vacation property. Yet you have the temerity to think that you deserve the same right of franchise to vote as those who call the lakes region home?

Please explain how you came to this conclusion?...

03-14-2010, 09:28 PM	#7
Yankee Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 150 Thanks: 19 Thanked 38 Times in 23 Posts	you're a tourist, plain and simple You do not live here, you do not vote here. Period. What makes you think that you have the same rights as NH citizens? People like you from south of the border come here and are the ones raising the tax bases of all the towns here in the lakes region. You would not be in the least interested in voting if your vacation property taxes were far less than they are now. You do not live here, you do not have family here, you do not raise your children here, you do not earn a living here, you have no stake in the community other than your vacation property. Yet you have the temerity to think that you deserve the same right of franchise to vote as those who call the lakes region home? Please explain how you came to this conclusion?...