Lynn Rudmin Chong: Fallout from Tuesday’s voting regarding property tax caps

To The Daily Sun,

My Winnisquam School District's three towns fell for the trickery of Question No. 2. Sanbornton, Tilton, Northfield voted, 60% or more, "Yes."

Question No. 2's wording includes a false promise: "These caps apply only to administrative operations of the SAU central office and do not affect classroom instruction, school-based services, or other municipal expenditures." School boards decide expenditures, hands off nothing. Republicans and Free Staters in our Statehouse were not honest with our voters, in their wording. A court see this as a legit problem? Tuesday's voting shows overwhelming statewide dissatisfaction with those writing the question.

Ironically, so-red state Montana passed a law "to stop the corporate flow of money into political campaigns." Montana voted in "the state can deny the power of corporations, trade associations, nonprofits, and other 'artificial persons' to donate to political causes. Businesses chartered in other states can't spend political money in the state" (Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American). Montana challenged the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court ruling. Fulfilling the goal of our Doris "Granny D" Haddock's 1999-2000 walk across the U.S. (About Open Democracy NH at opendemocracynh.org).

Montana's state ballot question is honest, smart. Other states predictably will follow suit. (Texas? Elon Musk's obscene election spending?) NH's hurting-property-owners read only that Question No. 2 would cut their taxes, effect on our schools overlooked.

Lynn Rudmin Chong

Sanbornton