{"id":10246,"date":"2026-07-23T08:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=10246"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:10:17","slug":"beware-of-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2026\/07\/23\/beware-of-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have noticed that some candidates have &#8220;lower property taxes&#8221; on their signs.<\/p>\n<p>Be aware that many times, this means they will advocate a sales, income or D&#038;I tax to &#8216;mitigate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It never works as seen by what happened in Connecticut and Vermont.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/riverdividesit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A River Divides It \u2013 How Sales Tax Fails Vermont<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fifteen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Fifteen Years of Folly \u2013 How Income Tax Fails Connecticut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/tax_info.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/tax_info.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/tax_info.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/tax_info-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have noticed that some candidates have &#8220;lower property taxes&#8221; on their signs. Be aware that many times, this means they will advocate a sales, income or D&#038;I tax to &#8216;mitigate&#8217;. It never works as seen by what happened in Connecticut and Vermont. A River Divides It \u2013 How Sales Tax Fails Vermont Fifteen Years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,50,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spending-caps","category-taxes","category-the-pledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10249,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}