1. During the past eight years, the average annual increase in the total property tax bill in New Hampshire has exceeded 7%. The total increase over the past eight years has been almost 75%.
a. What do you propose to do to lower property taxes?
b. Are you willing to consider new taxes to replace some or all of the property tax?
c. If you aren't willing to consider any new taxes, how will the state cover the expected budget shortfall, without shifting a greater burden onto property taxpayers?
d. County government is an increasing proportion of property taxes in municipal tax bills. Some of the reason for this increase is due to policy set in Concord. What would you do to reverse this increase?
2. Water is a public trust that must be protected for all life and for our future. What will you do if elected to protect NH's ground water?
3. When it can cost $100,000 to run for state senate and nearly $5 million to run for governor of New Hampshire, only people with access to money can run for office. But we need to attract the best talent and the widest range of perspectives to represent us in Concord. Elections in NH are paid for mostly by large corporations, wealthy individuals and lobbyists. A commission is looking at ways to implement a system of public funding of elections in NH.
a. Do you think that elections are also a public good (like education)?
b. Would you vote to adopt a publicly funded election system in which candidates who opt in can run for office on public money and thus remain accountable only to voters and not donors?
4. What tax incentives would you propose to promote the development of clean renewable energy and create green jobs that will stay here in NH, boost our economy and improve air quality?
5. Now that the North East Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) compact has been initiated, what are other measures the state should adopt to reduce climate change?
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