[phoenix]

the issue of the view tax has surfaced not because of water front but the back land that has views. The waterfront people have always paid more but it was easier to relate to increased property value with other views it can be more difficult. I also lived in Cal for three years and saw the reason for prop 13. Many of the state mandates were funded by local taxes and towns focused on the rate not total spending and were increasing spending whenever they increased property values. I think you have a similar problem in Nh and could get worst depending on how the education problem gets solved. Jarvis felt the only way to get local taxes under control was a cap. It has allowed people on fixed incomes to manage their taxes by not selling their home. All spending in the end can't fall on one base. Sometimes one has to put constraints on the "pols"