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Not a partisan, but an American
Live Free or Die Alliance is reportedly a site for non-partisan (meaning without party affiliation) views. I agree with the poison created through party politics. Since we will be celebrating the…Continue
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Ananta Gopalan commented on LFDA Editor's group 'Repeal 17th Amendment?'
The 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913 at the apogee of the early 20th Century socialism called progressive movement in the US. It was done to dilute the US Constitutional structure to enable the growth of the centralized federal…
Mercury emission
Forcing the Bow plant to install scrubbers to reduce or eliminate mercury emission while forcing everyone to install exclusively the CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) bubs is hypocritical. According to the EPA data, New Hampshire has a concentration of less than 1 microgram per square meter. Each CFL bulb has about 3 milligrams of mercury- 3000 times the level of mercury present in the air per square meter.Government recommendation for tuna is 0.02 milligram. Each CFL contains fifteen times…See More
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What is the Scrubber?
What is the scrubber and how does it affect you?See More
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Over worked legislators
NH legislators must consider slowing down.We don't need thousands of bills to complicate our lives, bloat the government, accelerate the spending, create a blizzard of mandates (most of them unfunded), find ways to downshift costs to towns and suffocate creativity and businesses.It is getting to the point where one wonders when just getting out of bed in the morning results in violating some state statutes, laws, ordinances etc. The EPA is declaring that our life sustaining breathing itself is…See More
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Legislative Process (Incubator)
NH legislators are overworked and underpaid. Is our citizen legislature obsolete?See More
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School funding
We pay a portion of our taxes to the state education. Currently, in Hampton, we pay over 50% of our taxes to school funding.Public eduction is supported by the tax payers to the extent of $15,000 per student per year. Student competency testing clearly shows that a significant majority of 11th graders(60 to 70%) are not proficient in reading, mathematics, science and writing. The problem with public education is that there is no accountability. No body, not the school board, not the state,…See More
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School Funding
The recent history of education funding in New Hampshire is a history of court cases. Do we need a new way to fund K-12 education?See More
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Ananta Gopalan commented on Jamila Lasante's blog post 'Stephen wants to run for Governor but doesn't work in this state?'
The requirement of people running for governor must also work within the confines of the state is like saying the local town employee must live in the town.
The state of New Hampshire is on its way to a financially unsustainable condition. The…
Michael R Bowen replied to Ananta Gopalan's discussion 'Wind farm' in the group Wind Farms (Incubator)
Ananta, I'm with you. I really don't think wind farms are ugly, but there are plenty of uglier things. If wind power were practical somebody would already be making money from it, but the fact is it can't survive without subsidy and…
Ananta Gopalan commented on LFDA Editor's blog post 'Legislators to vote on cider, not milk as state drink'
This amply illustrates why the legislature must only be convened during budget years. Save the state tax payers by staying home in off-budget years.
Ananta Gopalan replied to LFDA Editor's discussion 'NH Retirement system keeps its promises' in the group Retirement Rules for Public Servants (Incubator)
The statements by Mr. Ingram are providing lubrication to a system that can not be sustained.
It is not just the market conditions that is causing the problems cited by the Pew report. Most of the states deliberately underfund the annuity…
Retirement Rules for Public Servants (Incubator)
What do our public servants deserve as a retirement benefit? Some say the present benefit is excessive. As the pension funding gap widens, is reform needed?See More
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LFDA Editor commented on Ananta Gopalan's blog post 'Study: New Hampshire has one of the worst pension systems'
Here are some links to the Pew Center's report:
The Trillion Dollar Gap: Underfunded State Retirement Systems and the Road to Reform
NH State Fact Sheet
Study: New Hampshire has one of the worst pension systems
Pew Center on States has published the status report on the pension system of the fifty states. New Hampshire rated as one of the worst with over $3B in unfunded liability, funding ratio at 58% and the state withdrawing its funding to 30% and 25% in the next two years.It is a huge burden on the local taxpayers that hasn't come ashore yet.Group II employees can retire after 20 years (amended to 25 for new employees) with retirement pay formula calculated at 125% of the base pay which can include…See More
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Study: New Hampshire has one of the worst pension systems
Pew Center on States has published the status report on the pension system of the fifty states. New Hampshire rated as one of the worst with over $3B in unfunded liability, funding ratio at 58% and the state withdrawing its funding to 30% and 25% in the next two years.It is a huge burden on the local taxpayers that hasn't come ashore yet.Group II employees can retire after 20 years (amended to 25 for new employees) with retirement pay formula calculated at 125% of the base pay which can include…See More
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Study: New Hampshire has one of the worst pension systems
Pew Center on States has published the status report on the pension system of the fifty states. New Hampshire rated as one of the worst with over $3B in unfunded liability, funding ratio at 58% and the state withdrawing its funding to 30% and 25% in the next two years.
It is a huge burden on the local taxpayers that hasn't come ashore yet.
Group II employees can retire after 20 years (amended to 25 for new employees) with retirement pay formula calculated at 125% of the base pay which… Continue
It is a huge burden on the local taxpayers that hasn't come ashore yet.
Group II employees can retire after 20 years (amended to 25 for new employees) with retirement pay formula calculated at 125% of the base pay which… Continue
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