{"id":2518,"date":"2009-10-22T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:16:05","slug":"legislators-tax-summit-is-an-out-of-state-charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/10\/22\/legislators-tax-summit-is-an-out-of-state-charade\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislators Tax Summit is an Out Of State Charade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submitted to Cabinet.com<\/em><\/p>\n

To the Editor:<\/p>\n

House Speaker Terie Norelli (D-Portsmouth) and state Rep. Susan Almy (D-Grafton) have arranged for a \u201ctax summit\u201d before the New Hampshire House Ways and Means Committee, Oct. 21-22.<\/p>\n

The public can attend but may not speak or ask questions.<\/p>\n

The choice of groups invited to participate shows complete disregard for actual citizens and \u201cbona-fide\u201d New Hampshire taxpayer-funded advocacy groups.<\/p>\n

Groups like Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy<\/a> (ITEP) and Granite State Fair Tax Coalition (GSFTC) will likely testify in favor of sales or income taxes or both, as they have done in the past.<\/p>\n

See ITEP’s Testimony on HB 642<\/a><\/p>\n

Among ITEP\u2019s long list of funders are George Soros\u2019 Open Society, The TIDES Foundation (where have you heard THAT name lately?) and the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. The Citizens for Tax Justice Funding<\/a> page has since been removed but the latest archive from 2008 shows these donors:<\/p>\n

Arca Foundation
\nAnnie E. Casey Foundation
\nBen and Jerry Foundation
\nThe Century Fund
\nCoydog Foundation
\nEast Bay Community Foundation
\nFord Foundation<\/strong>
\nFunding Exchange
\nJ.C. Penney Foundation
\nJoyce Foundation
\nNational Education Association<\/strong>
\nNew York Community Trust
\nOpen Society Institute<\/strong>
\nPopplestone Foundation
\nPrice Entities
\nPublic Welfare Foundation
\nRockefeller Foundation<\/strong>
\nSan Diego Community Foundation
\nThe Schumann Foundation
\nStern Family Fund
\nStoneman Family Fund
\nStreisand Foundation
\nThe Shefa Fund
\nTides Foundation<\/strong>
\nVanguard Family Fund
\nWinthrop Rockefeller Foundation<\/strong>
\nWorking Assets Funding Services <\/p>\n

(Editors Note: These donors are part of the Soros-funded network of progressive groups http:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1303)<\/p>\n

The deceptively named GSFTC is funded by David Rockefeller-funded World Council of Churches. This group has infiltrated our town meetings, shilling for an income tax, using the candidates\u2019 Pledge as their target.<\/p>\n

Susan Almy needs to know that we citizens and taxpayers of New Hampshire and our advocacy organizations should not have to compete with the outside money and influence of billionaires like George Soros and David Rockefeller and groups like ITEP and GSFTC.<\/p>\n

JANE AITKEN
\nBedford<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note 2017: NH Tax Shift Plan<\/a> does not list how it is funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted to Cabinet.com To the Editor: House Speaker Terie Norelli (D-Portsmouth) and state Rep. Susan Almy (D-Grafton) have arranged for a \u201ctax summit\u201d before the New Hampshire House Ways and Means Committee, Oct. 21-22. The public can attend but may not speak or ask questions. The choice of groups invited to participate shows complete disregard […]<\/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":[36,16,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-us","category-broadbased","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8407,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/8407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}