Sometimes You Just Have To Laugh

In a post on Facebook I reported how much could be saved if the $800,000 budget stays in place on May 7.  I was called a liar and not, "No you are wrong," and this is why with an analysis of the numbers.  Have people actually not spent a few minutes figuring out  how much money they could save?  That is apparently the case. 

I don't respond to posts calling me a liar.  I just let the foolishness of those types of posts speak for themselves. 

Intelligent people have looked at their tax bill and proposed budget and have figured out how much money they will be saving for their families and future.   At a minimum if someone wants to do a quick check they could take the $900,000 cut from the budget and divided it by the  number of homes in Croydon. 

Cathy Peschke 

The Question is Why Aren't you Fighting Against the 1.7 Million Dollar Budget?

 

What is Wrong with Freedom and Prosperity?

Some in town lament libertarians and the Free State Project.  Let us talk about freedom and what some libertarians and a republican lead house, senate, governorship, and executive council has helped New Hampshire to become. 

I borrowed this from Carla an outspoken proponent of freedom. 

New Hampshire is 

"#1 in social and economic freedom even beating Florida. 

Expanded school choice, monies follow the child. 

Unemployment rate 2.5%.

Cuts in interest and dividend taxes.

No sales or income taxes .

Best quality of living. 

Third highest median household income. 

A decrease in property taxes for business. "

If high taxation is what you desire and you find freedom abhorrent there are plenty of states from which to choose.  

When the $800,000 budget remains in place on May 7th.  There are plenty of other cities with higher taxes if that is a desire of my readers.  Now is a good time to sell before the housing market crashes there will be plenty of people who will want to move to the lower property tax town of Croydon, New Hampshire.   Have you checked out housing sales and the history in Croydon?  Could be a good time to get top dollars for your home. 

Cathy Peschke 

Advocates of New Taxes are Neither Compassionate nor Benevolent

 Advocates of new taxes are neither compassionate nor benevolent.

"Proponents of tax increases frequently state that they have no problem paying 

more in taxes so, of course, they support the increase. They adorn the cloak 

of compassion and benevolence because they want to pay more. They are so sweet!

No, they are not.  This misses the point entirely. It is a ruse. It is fraud.

These proponents can pay more now. They can write a check to the State or to a 

charity or to their neighbor. They don't need a tax increase to do so.

They need the tax increase to make OTHERS pay more.

The desire to make others pay more is neither compassionate nor benevolent." 

D.K. Williams

They Think You are Stupid

Let's talk about the $800,000 budget.  What if it does succeed and what does it mean to your family?  

In the first year depending on the size of your home you can save $1000-$3000 or even more if you live in an expensive home.  

In the fifth year your family could save a total of $5000-$15,000. 

In the tenth year, assuming the community is intelligent enough to keep smaller budgets you could save  a total of $10,000-$30,000. 

In the twentieth year, your family could save a total of $20,000 - $60,000.   

As time progresses the amount would be greater depending on inflation.  

What could you do with that money?  College for your children?  Pay off your home?  Save money for retirement through investments that money you save could triple by retirement.  

It is not greedy to want to protect your own money.  We are not asking you to protect our jobs, we are not school teachers with conflicts of interest.  We are not asking you to protect a broken or bloated system.  We are asking you to give this $800,000 budget a chance.  This is a David and Goliath moment that can mean great change for the greater good and your own financial security in the future. 

Cathy Peschke

Character

 

How Taxation is Like Slavery.

Croydon property owners have become somewhat of slaves to the Croydon school district.  We don't really own our homes, if we don't pay the ransom to the Croydon School District we lose our homes.   

To read the full story, click on the title.

Cathy Peschke

Frederick Douglass, Tax Rebel

by Jeffrey Tucker

"Draining me of the last cent of my hard earnings, he would, however, occasionally—when I brought home an extra large sum—dole out to me a sixpence or a shilling, with a view, perhaps, of kindling up my gratitude; but this practice had the opposite effect — it was an admission of my right to the whole sum. The fact, that he gave me any part of my wages, was proof that he suspected that I had a right to the whole of them. I always felt uncomfortable, after having received anything in this way, for I feared that the giving me a few cents, might, possibly, ease his conscience, and make him feel himself a pretty honorable robber, after all!"

"Chattel slavery is a grave moral evil, on a level incomparable to bad tax policy. Nonetheless, commerce, in the life of Douglass, served as the inspiration and the means for obtaining freedom – and freedom from what? From his personal equivalent of the tax man who dared to take from his hands that which his own hands had earned."