{"id":866,"date":"2009-10-13T18:21:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T22:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=866"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:48:21","slug":"soros-funded-group-to-testify-for-income-tax-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/10\/13\/soros-funded-group-to-testify-for-income-tax-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-Funded Group to Testify for Income Tax Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per an article in the Union Leader, on October 21 and 22 of 2009, Susan Almy of the NH House of Representatives will be holding a two-day tax &#8216;summit&#8217; at the Legislative Office Building. October 21 the session will run from 9:00 AM &#8211; 4:30 PM in LOB 202-4 and on October 22 it will run from 9:00 AM &#8211; 3:00 PM in LOB 206-8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDITORIAL: Susan&#8217;s secret; Pitching an income tax<\/strong><br \/>\nPublication: New Hampshire Union Leader (Manchester, NH)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If some of the highest-ranking state legislators were outspoken abortion opponents and they were caught organizing a secret legislative summit on state abortion policy, the left would go nuts. So it should come as no surprise that people are alarmed by the revelation last week of a so-called legislative economic summit organized by top House members who support an income tax.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This will not be a public hearing where ordinary taxpayers can attend and speak. Instead, there will be a list of groups touted as &#8216;experts&#8217; &#8211; some from DC who list backers such as wealthy foundations and elitist groups from out of the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/pdf\/ITEP_Testimony_NH_HB_642.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The group ITEP testified for an income tax in March of 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After visiting their main website, we saw that George Soros, David Rockefeller and the TIDES foundation were listed as funding sources&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Open Society Institute is George Soros&#8217; main group and the Tides Foundation is also Soros-funded, and is who funds ACORN, the group linked to Wade Rathke that you have likely heard so much about in the news..<\/p>\n<p>The Granite State Fair Tax Coalition is funded by a David Rockefeller group and has been infiltrating local town meetings to try to drum up support for trashing the candidates&#8217;  &#8220;Pledge&#8221; against broadbased taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Where are our real, grassroots local taxpayer groups?  Were they even invited?<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers and voters are urged to show up although they will not be allowed to speak. There will be an 8:30 press conference in the lobby of the LOB.<\/p>\n<p>SUSAN ALMY CONTACT INFO:<br \/>\nHome Address:<br \/>\n266 Poverty Lane Unit 4B<br \/>\nLebanon, NH 03766-2730<br \/>\nPhone: (603)448-4769<br \/>\nEmail: susan.almy@comcast.net<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/house\/committees\/committeedetails.aspx?c&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TERIE NORELLI CONTACT INFO:<br \/>\nHome Address:<br \/>\n35 Middle Road<br \/>\nPortsmouth, NH 03801-4802<br \/>\nPhone: (603)436-2108<br \/>\nEmail: terie.norelli@leg.state.nh.us<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/house\/members\/member.aspx?member=376154<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per an article in the Union Leader, on October 21 and 22 of 2009, Susan Almy of the NH House of Representatives will be holding a two-day tax &#8216;summit&#8217; at the Legislative Office Building. October 21 the session will run from 9:00 AM &#8211; 4:30 PM in LOB 202-4 and on October 22 it will [&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":[3,16,11,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-broadbased","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}