{"id":9599,"date":"2024-07-24T14:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:01:48","slug":"say-no-to-broad-based-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2024\/07\/24\/say-no-to-broad-based-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Say NO to Broad-based Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor;<\/p>\n<p>We were a bit confused when we read Rep. Verville&#8217;s (R) suggestion for how a broad-based tax might be implemented for NH.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/rep-kevin-verville-conditions-for-my-support-of-a-broad-based-tax\/article_a64af5a8-2fe1-11ef-8f97-9fd20d858656.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/rep-kevin-verville-conditions-for-my-support-of-a-broad-based-tax\/article_a64af5a8-2fe1-11ef-8f97-9fd20d858656.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As keepers of the original &#8220;Pledge&#8221;, each election year the Coalition of NH Taxpayers invites candidates to promise or re-affirm their promise to never propose or support any such broad-based tax. <\/p>\n<p>The source of our confusion is, Rep Verville (R) took our Pledge in 2022. We have never had anyone rescind it, so will he still support  it?<\/p>\n<p>Any candidates for Governor, EC, State Senate or State House can take the Pledge by emailing us at jane@cnht.org <\/p>\n<p>One can read more about the Pledge on our website at cnht.org<br \/>\nThe full list for 2024 will be published sometime before the September 10 primary.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to listing new candidates.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read about Vermont&#8217;s and Connecticut&#8217;s tax failures on our website with these two files on the Documents page:<\/p>\n<p>A River Divides It \u2013 How Sales Tax Fails Vermont<br \/>\nFifteen Years of Folly \u2013 How Income Tax Fails Connecticut<\/p>\n<p>Coalition of NH Taxpayers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor; We were a bit confused when we read Rep. Verville&#8217;s (R) suggestion for how a broad-based tax might be implemented for NH. https:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/rep-kevin-verville-conditions-for-my-support-of-a-broad-based-tax\/article_a64af5a8-2fe1-11ef-8f97-9fd20d858656.html As keepers of the original &#8220;Pledge&#8221;, each election year the Coalition of NH Taxpayers invites candidates to promise or re-affirm their promise to never propose or support any such [&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":[3,50,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-taxes","category-the-pledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599","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=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}