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Article: An income tax should pay for education only
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- Concord Monitor
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- February 26, 2007
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An income tax should pay for education only
During an interview on NHPR's Exchange last week, Warren Rudman
suggested that if New Hampshire ever passed an income tax, it should
do so only if it also passed a constitutional amendment requiring
that all revenue from an income tax be used to pay for public
schools.
Rudman said this in the context of a discussion of the Claremont
case. The former U.S. senator said he hoped the Legislature was
moving toward defining an adequate education. He opposed
constitutional amendments challenging the court's role in the case.
We have shadow-boxed over the particulars of a state income tax
through the regimes of umpteen pledge-bound governors. Our first ...