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- From: pas@kepler.unh.edu (Paul A Sand)
- Newsgroups: ne.politics
- Subject: Re: A new tax system ... was Vote...
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 02:37:31 GMT
- Organization: University of New Hampshire
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- References: <1992Nov10.060546.7374@EE.Stanford.EDU> <5909@balrog.ctron.com> <1992Nov16.182520.6555@m5.harvard.edu>
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- db: Dave Borden
-
- db: In return for not having an income tax or sales tax, New Hampshire
- has very high property taxes (at least that's what I've heard -
- correct me if I'm wrong - but they have to get revenue in some way.)
- [...]
-
- You're not wrong. On the other hand, the overall tax burden by most
- measures is low compared to other states.
-
- db: I read in the Economist, a British news magazine, that Arneson
- wanted to _eliminate_ property taxes and replace them with the
- income tax. [...]
-
- Well, not really. Property tax is collected at the local level, not
- by the state. Arnesen alleged that a large fraction of the income tax
- collected in her plan would go back to the cities and towns, allowing
- them to decrease property tax rates. (I don't believe elimination
- was an option.)
-
- Her opponents simply pointed out that this supposedly desirable result
- had never, ever, occurred in any state that imposed a broad-based tax.
- I don't think she had an effective comeback to that. And, as you know,
- she lost.
- --
- -- Paul A. Sand | A socialist is someone who is deathly afraid
- -- Univ. of New Hampshire | that someone, somewhere, is making a profit.
- -- pas@kepler.unh.edu | (apologies to H. L. Mencken)
-