Trust Me I'm From The Government

Remember way back in November of 2006 when a breath of fresh air hit the polling booths all over NH and we threw the bums out?

Bad news. Tax and spend bums are in.

I don't remember hearing anyone campaigning on these issues:

HB 925-FN-A – AS INTRODUCED

2007 SESSION

07-1096

09/10

HOUSE BILL 925-FN-A

AN ACT relative to state and local taxes.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hamm, Merr 4; Rep. Wells, Rock 8; Rep. Gould, Rock 5; Rep. K. Shaw, Hills 26; Rep. Mulholland, Graf 10

COMMITTEE: Ways and Means

ANALYSIS

This bill:

I. Taxes property which is not primary residential real estate at twice the rate of primary residential real estate under the local property tax.

II. Establishes a luxury sales and use tax on motor vehicles costing $30,000 or more and any item costing $10,000 or more.

III. Establishes a tax on entertainment admission charges.

IV. Establishes a tax on gambling winnings.

V. Expands the definition of tobacco products subject to the tobacco tax.

VI. Changes the method of calculating the beer tax to a method based on price rather than volume.

VII. Establishes a tax on estates exceeding $3,000,000, excluding certain farm property.

VIII. Establishes a payroll tax on businesses with payrolls exceeding $10,000 per week.

IX. Changes the rate of the statewide enhanced education tax.

X. Dedicates revenues from the taxes established in this bill to the education trust fund.

I hope you get the idea. These moonbats think your stupid.

So far, they are looking for any way to skim, steal, scrape, squeeze, or weasle every nickle out of your hide while they take every freedom they can think of  from the greedy, selfish, overfed, hosts they think the public is.

This is just ONE bill headed down the shute.

And the big secret is that our Governor was left with a $38 million dollare surplus and has buried us in debt already.

Thank your print media.

And the Democrat Party.

Phunding Phony

Governor Lynch's “Amendment” To The NH Constitution.

Fist of all you need to know THIS:

In all cases of education funding lawsuits words mean nothing. If this were not true there would be no education funding lawsuits to begin with. Its that simple.

So what is important is the perception of what is being voted on. That is all it comes down to. The parties that got us into this mess will interpret anything the way they want it to read. Taxpayers only need a snapshot of this crap shoot.

Here is Governor Lymp's amendment:

[Art.} 83-a [Funding of Public Education] In fulfillment of the duty to cherish public schools set forth in the preceding article, (83), the general court shall define and adequate eduction, regularly determine the total statewide cost thereof, fund with state monies, not less than fifty percent of the total statewide cost of an adequate education each year, and maintain standards of accountability. The general court shall have the authority to distribute the funds in the manner that it describes to best promote an equal opportunity for an adequate education for every child in the public schools, provided that the general court shall distribute some state aid to every district.

What the amendment does:

1. Codifies into the NH Constitution an interpretation some of the old impeached justices made up and put there. That is the idea that “cherish” means to PAY for through broad based taxes re-distributed through Concord.

2. Tasks the Legislature with defining something that is undefinable because it the right of local taxpayers to define. In effect, the amendment hands local schools over to lawyers, lobbyists, and special interests in Concord even more than they are now.

3. Institutes an unavoidable income and sales tax to pay for ever escalating education costs at a rate set by Concord politicians.

4. Sets an undetermined responsibility for the income and sales taxes that will be needed to cover billions in new state spending.

5. Drags “Equity” back into and “Adequacy” suit so we can be sued more often..

6. Only mentions “public” schools when the preceding articles states: “to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries and public schools, to encourage private and public institutions...”

7. Puts NH education spending on a sales and income tax revenue roller coaster.

8. Gives Governor Do-Nothing temporary cover from the endless power grab by the activist court.

9. Provides RHINO Republicans with way to “work with” the Democrats to bankrupt this state and ruin education.

10. Creates a new office of “Lieutenant Governor” for education lawyer Andru Volisnki.

All in all I would say it is a perfect fit for a Governor who has us accumulating about a $150 million dollar deficit already. While we still have no handle on his rosy revenue estimates. Not bad Democrats! (And the print media who protect them!)

So THIS is the “CHANGE” you promised.

Bong Hits For Buckley

Well it looks like the AP Wire Service reporter Beverly Wang was shopping for some new phone jamming news for page two of the Union Leader as well as for her friends in the Democrat Party.

When all of a sudden she got it. 

Right between the eyes.

Formerly convicted phone jamming conspiritor, James Tobin, had his 2005 conviction overturned by a Federal jury today. The same day Wang was ginning up a story about more investigations being needed regarding the 2002 phone jamming affair a jury says no criminal intent was found. 

Let's see, its 2007. Phone jamming was going to be  your 2008 Democrat campaign again guys?

Nice story Wang comes up with while the Buckley affair climbs out from under the rug  again on You Tube. Too bad real news dumped on her tired old angle.

What's Buckley's pal Distatso from the Manchester Paper going to do now? He lived the phone jamming case.

Maybe one of these ace reporters can tell us about the "lost until after the election political mail" suit in Superior Court. (prank) Or why the Governor's office was diverting calls they didn't want to NH Right To Life last month to jam their answering machine. (prank)

How about a few heartwarming stories from inside the Democrat Party Chairman's race.

How's that going? I hear Pee Wee Herman is interested.

Let's ask Hillary and all the other presidential candidates to comment some more.

These people put the free in freak show.

NH Senate To Small Towns: You Lose!

Big City Labor Shoves It To The Small Towns

Not many regular folk can follow what is going on in behind the scenes in Concord but you will soon feel the pinch. Liberal Democrats are paying off Big Labor by offering them the double plum of reducing the minimum number of public employees, now ten, it takes to form a union, to only three.

And...

An “Evergreen Clause” written into State Statute.

Now Selectmen in small towns will have to negotiate with big labor unions over such things as police road crew labor costs. And control of the number of employees appears to be coming out of current law as well.

Nice! It won't cost the big city liberals, Sen. Gottesman, Dist 12; Sen. DeVries, Dist 18; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20 one dime.

Wait until voters in NH find out that liberal Democrats in Concord are taxing and regulating the daylights out of them!

So this is the “change” they campaigned on? I don't remember this promise - to the public. Sounds like someone made private "pledge" to the unions!

Below is a part of the Senate Bill with underlined words coming out of the bill and italics going in.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven

AN ACT relative to public employee terms of employment, bargaining units, and dispute resolution.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Definitions. Amend RSA 273-A:1, XI to read as follows:

XI. “Terms and conditions of employment’’ means wages, hours, and other conditions of employment, including matters directly related to safety considerations, other than managerial policy within the exclusive prerogative of the public employer, or confided exclusively to the public employer by statute or regulations adopted pursuant to statute. The phrase “managerial policy within the exclusive prerogative of the public employer’’ shall be construed to include but shall not be limited to the functions, programs and methods of the public employer, including the use of technology, the public employer’s organizational structure, and the selection, direction [and number] of its personnel, so as to continue public control of governmental functions.

2 Determining Bargaining Unit. Amend RSA 273-A:8, I to read as follows:

I. The board or its designee shall determine the appropriate bargaining unit and shall certify the exclusive representative thereof when petitioned to do so under RSA 273-A:10. In making its determination the board should take into consideration the principle of community of interest. The community of interest may be exhibited by one or more of the following criteria, although it is not limited to such:

(a) Employees with the same conditions of employment;

(b) Employees with a history of workable and acceptable collective negotiations;

(c) Employees in the same historic craft or profession;

(d) Employees functioning within the same organizational unit.

In no case shall the board certify a bargaining unit of less than [10] 3 employees with the same community of interest. [For purposes of this section, probationary employees shall be counted to satisfy the 10 employee minimum requirement. In no case shall such probationary employees vote in any election conducted under the provisions of this chapter to certify an employee organization as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit.]

3 New Paragraph; Resolution of Disputes. Amend RSA 273-A:12 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:

VII. If the impasse is not resolved at the time of the expiration of the parties’ agreement, the terms of the collective bargaining agreement shall continue in force and effect, including but not limited to the continuation of any pay plan included in the agreement, until a new agreement shall be executed.

4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

The Liberal Democrats just can't be trusted.

SB2 How Do You Do

Senate Bill 2 also known as RSA 40:13 fared pretty well this year despite a campaign of misinformation against secret ballot voting.

The best case of this was in Hampton Falls where an all out effort was made to rescind this popular piece of enabling legislation at the town level. It actually reached a majority vote. This is a first in ten years. The last time a town rescinded SB2 was back in 1996 in some very small towns right after adopting it.

Hampton Falls voters have lived with secret ballot voting at annual town meetings long enough to know it has many advantages. Voters in this town chose RSA 40:13 to conduct their meetings in an organized fashion by the required 60% super-majority vote some years ago. Now snowstorms, heated debate full of misinformation and attendance by large groups of town employees has less of an effect on the Town's bottom line.

The anti-SB2 crowd has been throwing around silly arguments about uninformed voters. But this same argument is made every time some article the tax and spenders wants is voted down. It is old news.

Former Governor John Sununu's editorials in Hampton Falls newspapers against SB2 reveal how little he knows about town and school meetings. Back when he was governor we had separate line items in budgets and voters could chose what to and what not to fund. Now we have bottom line all or nothing budgets thanks to the NH Municipal Association and the public school industry. Many meetings are a simple formality and “informed discussion” is not worth spit.

With a bottom line budget the elected officials can send inside that bottom line figure as they please. Voters are not stupid as many tax and spenders claim. They know a fix when the see one.

Candia voters adopted SB2 this year. Good for them.

Pittsfield came close. They voted 57% for and 43% against SB2 for the school side.

Northwood and Hopkinton got majority votes on the school side but not the 60%.

The votes to RESCIND SB2 were more telling. Take Deerfield for instance:

For the Deerfield School District 291 to rescind – 696 to stay with SB2.

For the Town of Deerfield, 288 to rescind – 702 to stay with SB2.

The Deerfield votes show the hole in ant-secret ballot voting. Deerfield voters are informed about SB2. They have lived with it.

Not to forget the “alternative” to SB2 I should mention town charters. The scam of the century. Any anti-secret ballot spender will repeat loudly and in complete indifference to facts that a charter is the way to go. To municipal bankruptcy maybe.

Take the Kearsarge Regional School District. They have the SB2 alternative “charter' provision created by HB141 back in 1995 and designed to thwart SB2.

How's that deal working?

Check this out.

Kearsarge Regional Operating Budget Warrant Article:

To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the Municipal Budget Committee's recommended amount of $30,268,095 for the support of schools, for the payment of salaries for the school district officials and agents, and for the payment for the statutory obligations of the district.

The School Board recommends $30,268,095.

So here is how the charter works. You get to vote on the exact same number! Two choices and no “none of the above”. Heads, the school board number wins – tails, the budget committee number wins! Who wouldn't like that. Democracy in action.

No wonder so few towns and schools adopted charters. And no wonder one has and more will change back when they figure out the scam.