Tax Increase

This graph reflects estimated spending based on the articles that actually passed in March 2018. ... In just four years the average will have risen from under $6,000 ($5,989) to over $7,000 ($7,015).

Knee jerk motions have no place at any Deliberative Session.

While we have no issue with the submission and enthusiastic promotion of Article 38 by the “Friends of the Grist Mill Dam”, Rational Taxpayers of Hampton is recommending a NO vote on this citizen’s petitioned article, which requests $250,000 for the “rebuilding” the Grist Mill Dam. If approved, the $250,000 would be in addition to the $400,000 voters approved last year in a Selectmen’s sponsored article to “decommission”, or remove the dam, and does not include a $170,000 increase in long-term costs. Our reasoning is