{"id":679,"date":"2009-04-23T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=679"},"modified":"2009-05-31T19:32:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:32:58","slug":"we-are-being-set-up-for-an-income-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/04\/23\/we-are-being-set-up-for-an-income-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"We are being set up for an income tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 23, 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=Ted+Gatsas%3A+We+are+being+set+up+for+an+income+tax&#038;articleId=5cc8b35c-6f06-44f5-9b67-c1100778a53d\">Union Leader Article by Ted Gatsas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s look at the trial balloons. Currently, the state has an interest and dividends tax of 5 percent. The House has added to that a 5 percent tax on capital gains, an 8 percent death tax and a 10 percent gambling winnings tax. The interest earned on your savings account, your capital gains, your inheritance and gambling winnings are income; therefore, to tax any of them is to introduce an income tax. <strong>Let&#8217;s call a spade a spade and admit that the state is taking a back-door approach and instituting an income tax.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=Ted+Gatsas%3A+We+are+being+set+up+for+an+income+tax&#038;articleId=5cc8b35c-6f06-44f5-9b67-c1100778a53d\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also, we refer you to TWO studies which prove that wherever an income or sales tax has been instituted, it has NEVER resulted in lower property taxes.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/pdf\/fifteen.pdf\">Yankee Institute (Conn) &#8211; Fifteen Years of Folly<\/a> [1.8MB]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/pdf\/riverdividesit.pdf\">Atlantic Institute (Vt) &#8211; A River Divides It<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23, 2009 Union Leader Article by Ted Gatsas &#8220;Let&#8217;s look at the trial balloons. Currently, the state has an interest and dividends tax of 5 percent. The House has added to that a 5 percent tax on capital gains, an 8 percent death tax and a 10 percent gambling winnings tax. The interest earned [&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":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-broadbased"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}