The Tax Man Cometh...

fatlazyless · 01-16-2005, 11:00 PM

I have read that the teachers and their spouses at Inter Lakes High School in Meredith which teaches students from Meredith, Centre Harbor & Sandwich receive health insurance for life. According to a news short in the Foster's Daily Democrat, this is done no where else in the state and it last cost $345000. Compared to the many retirees across the country who get switched over to Medicare at age 65, this is quite a benefit. Ho-hum, oh well, what-can-one-do, just pay those taxes and forgit it, you can't fight city hall, ho-hum!

phoenix · 02-12-2005, 09:07 PM

see that the new governor has proposed to do away with the state wide property tax for education . Will raise cigarette taxes and provide money to the neediest towns not towns like Amherst who have high income but lower property assessments. This should really help many of the lake towns such as Moultonboro who have been giving $4M per year to the state. I understand that towns who will lose are banding together to fight but the plan seems fair

PROPELLER · 02-14-2005, 11:20 AM

It still does not adress the original problem that came out of the Claremont decision. And that is property taxes should not be the basis of funding education. Now we are right back to where we started. If and when the statewide property tax portion of the property tax bill is eliminated, the school portion of the property tax bill will go up to make up for what is lost from the statewide property tax & property taxes are still the major source of funding education.

01-16-2005, 11:00 PM	#1
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,795 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,026 Times in 746 Posts	health insurance for life.....say what? I have read that the teachers and their spouses at Inter Lakes High School in Meredith which teaches students from Meredith, Centre Harbor & Sandwich receive health insurance for life. According to a news short in the Foster's Daily Democrat, this is done no where else in the state and it last cost $345000. Compared to the many retirees across the country who get switched over to Medicare at age 65, this is quite a benefit. Ho-hum, oh well, what-can-one-do, just pay those taxes and forgit it, you can't fight city hall, ho-hum!

02-12-2005, 09:07 PM	#2
phoenix Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: phoenix and moultonboro Posts: 1,559 Thanks: 61 Thanked 276 Times in 194 Posts	see that the new governor has proposed to do away with the state wide property tax for education . Will raise cigarette taxes and provide money to the neediest towns not towns like Amherst who have high income but lower property assessments. This should really help many of the lake towns such as Moultonboro who have been giving $4M per year to the state. I understand that towns who will lose are banding together to fight but the plan seems fair

02-14-2005, 11:20 AM	#3
PROPELLER Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 340 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	It still does not adress the original problem that came out of the Claremont decision. And that is property taxes should not be the basis of funding education. Now we are right back to where we started. If and when the statewide property tax portion of the property tax bill is eliminated, the school portion of the property tax bill will go up to make up for what is lost from the statewide property tax & property taxes are still the major source of funding education.