{"id":1604,"date":"2011-01-22T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2011-02-04T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T00:12:11","slug":"save-the-whale-of-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2011\/01\/22\/save-the-whale-of-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Whale of a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile, Chair<\/em><\/p>\n

Environmentalism is a funny religion but the bottom line is as always – the money.<\/p>\n

Here is a pretty open and shut case of abuse of taxpayers by several of these non-profits: See The Union Leader<\/a><\/p>\n

In short, we have the Audubon crowd selling some \u201cprotected\u201d land to another non-profit environmental group with taxpayer dollars so it will be protected again.<\/p>\n

Some parcels can also be protected from any taxpayer\/voter control as well thanks to some recent Superior Court decisions invalidating RSA 36-A:4 which mandates taxpayer control of land purchased with town funds. <\/p>\n

Result: Non-profit owns town land and is not subject to 91-A or taxpayer control.<\/p>\n

Personally, I have about had it with land purchases for conservation because of all the scams I see throughout this state and others, so it is almost a plus that \u201cconservation\u201d money is being used to buy up the same land again. At least we still have some land on the tax rolls.<\/p>\n

Another plus is that some people of modest means will still be able to buy land to build a home or business and not be locked out of our snob zoned communities altogether and we will have less reason to suffer workfarce housing regulations designed to let in only a certain small number of untouchables.<\/p>\n

Maybe ten years ago I was helping start a taxpayer group in Bow. At the open meeting when I was asked to speak I was explaining how progressives lock up a town for themselves through zoning, conservation and high taxes.<\/p>\n

Several people walked up to me after the meeting and asked about something a school board member said out loud when she thought no one could hear her. This is roughly the quote: \u201cOnce we are rid of the middle class in town we will run this place.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a big difference between conservation and confiscation. Voters should pay close attention to what is going on behind the scenes with these so-called conservation groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile, Chair Environmentalism is a funny religion but the bottom line is as always – the money. Here is a pretty open and shut case of abuse of taxpayers by several of these non-profits: See The Union Leader In short, we have the Audubon crowd selling some \u201cprotected\u201d land to another non-profit environmental […]<\/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":[10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-town-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}