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This is a ridiculous bill that interferes with local control in towns, cities, and school districts. The citizens need to be able to respond to local conditions. TAX CAPS are POOR governance. Especially when the state keeps downshifting responsibilities and costs to towns and schools!!! It also interferes with state governance. The Republicans have been shrinking our budgets for schools, social services, infrastructure, etc. for years and something will soon have to give. More revenue will allow more spending on needed services! NO TAX CAPS!

Just like the US flag, the state flag, and the POW/MIA flag, the rainbow flag is a sign of unity and welcoming.

I oppose this bill because it does not expand rights, protections, or transparency for New Hampshire residents and may limit public accountability.

This is an attack on local control! Inappropriate and unnecessary!

Again, this bill has Free State/Liberty Alliance fingerprints all over it. Do not support this bill attacking local control. Towns bear the burden of expenses the state has refused to pay such as funding for public schools. This bill would make it impossible for towns to adjust taxes in the face of unexpected, unavoidable expenses. Who can read the future? A major storm could destroy a school building or a town hall. A fire truck could be damaged in an accident. Unforeseen problems could arise and towns need the flexibility to address them as they see fit. The state should not meddle in this area.

This is a proposed constitutional amendment that would cap the spending, changes to tax rates, and increases in budgets of the state, municipalities, counties and school districts to an amount tied to inflation and population change. If a town or school district, for instance, had an unexpected and unavoidable expense, they would not be permitted to adjust their local taxes accordingly. This is an attack on local control by a state that routinely downshifts burdens and expenses onto localities.

What are you supposed to do if the roof on your local school collapses after this bill passes? Tell the kids to step over it? The people who live in local communities are inherently better equipped to make decisions about appropriate taxation.

Another attempt to remove local financial control

New Hampshire very much values local control and this bill attacks that. I am opposed.

I am strongly opposed because this bill would undermine local control.

This is an attack on local control by a state that routinely downshifts burdens and expenses onto localities.

This is an outrageous and unacceptable attack on the principles of local control.

The state must raise sufficient revenue to provide necessary services. Arbitrary caps are counter productive.