[QUOTE=Yankee;136610]Let me see if I got this correct:
People with the means come up here, and create a market which, because of the resulting tax increases, forces the local and other middle class folk to sell their property. They in effect raise the tax base. Thus making less affluent people persona non grata to the area.
I'm not sure I would agree with that. If people with means come up here it probably is a second home and they are only her 6 months.
They have no children in schools which make up the largest portion of the tax base, they have to pay to install wells for water, maintain a septic system and pay to dump there trash. In Meredith 30% is paid by taxpayers for these servicesand 70% by users. In 14 years I have paid $190,000 in taxes for the equivalent of 7 years living here. I started off with about $4300 a year in taxes and now pay about $16000 although I still live in the same house I built in 1993. I have not asked for or has the town provided anything different since I moved here.
I agree with the rest of your statement.
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