{"id":488,"date":"2009-01-12T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T23:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=488"},"modified":"2018-01-05T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:56:54","slug":"you-spend-we-cap-jackie-cilley-d-barrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/01\/12\/you-spend-we-cap-jackie-cilley-d-barrington\/","title":{"rendered":"You Spend, We Cap &#8211; Jackie Cilley (D) Barrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senator Jackie Cilley, D-Barrington had this to say about taxes in NH:<\/p>\n<p><em>Senator Jackie Cilley says \u201cthe system raises moral questions since, of the 60 percent of state revenue derived from property taxes, low-income residents pay more than those on the high end of the pay spectrum.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The long-term consequences are coming home to roost, evidenced by local tax caps that  may well spell the death knell for the vitality&#8221; of communities, she said. &#8220;The caps are a reaction to the &#8216;untenable burden&#8217; of rising property taxes brought on by cuts at the state level that downshift services to the county and municipalities&#8221;, she added.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is Senator Cilley knows a little bit of this and a little bit of that about taxes, but when you add it all up she knows a whole lot about nothing useful.<\/p>\n<p>First, the system we have is quite the moral system. Our tax system allows for the most control of taxes by taxpayers &#8211; the people who pay the taxes, or should I say have them taken from them, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire, without a rollercoaster ride on the broad based tax scheme, plans its budgets based on votes for spending by citizens and collects taxes against a more stable method &#8211; the value of property in the municipality. The process is open to all and as transparent as a tax base can be.<\/p>\n<p>Some would call it fair.<\/p>\n<p>What Senator Cilley doesn\u2019t seem to grasp about &#8220;tax caps&#8221; is that they are not a simple move to irresponsibly cut or slash taxes. What she calls a tax cap is really a taxpayer generated effort to STOP OVER-SPENDING.<\/p>\n<p>How is over-spending \u201cmoral\u201d Senator Cilley?<\/p>\n<p><strong>It wasn\u2019t that long ago your Democrat Legislature and Governor spent 17.5% more than the last NH budget, (along with wild revenue projections) and of course NOW you are shifting your excess onto the shoulders of the local taxpayers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NH voters amended the NH Constitution to include Article 28-A to stop unfunded mandates from Concord. It was an act of survival and politicians like you foresaw doom and gloom then.<br \/>\nNow taxpayers are going to halt over-spending with spending caps until you get the message.<br \/>\nHow do you like that deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ed Naile Senator Jackie Cilley, D-Barrington had this to say about taxes in NH: Senator Jackie Cilley says \u201cthe system raises moral questions since, of the 60 percent of state revenue derived from property taxes, low-income residents pay more than those on the high end of the pay spectrum.\u201d &#8220;The long-term consequences are coming [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spending-caps","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7284,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/7284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}