Fair Taxation

We believe everyone should contribute based on their ability to pay.

Taxes are how we fund the things we all rely on: schools, roads, healthcare, housing, clean water, emergency services, public workers, care infrastructure, and community programs.

A fair tax system should ask the most from those with the greatest ability to pay. It should not balance budgets on the backs of working families, renters, seniors, small homeowners, and low-income communities.

Right now, New Hampshire’s tax system overburdens working people.

New Hampshire’s tax system is often described as “low tax,” but for many working families, renters, and homeowners, that is not the reality.

The state’s overreliance on property taxes places a heavy burden on local communities. When the state refuses to adequately fund schools, housing, healthcare, and public services, the costs are pushed down to towns, cities, property taxpayers, renters, and families.

At the same time, corporations and wealthy people have benefited from tax cuts and loopholes. The result is a system where those with the least room to spare often pay a larger share of their income toward the basic costs of running our communities.

This is not inevitable.

Tax systems are political choices.

When politicians cut taxes for corporations or wealthy people, they are also choosing what will be underfunded: schools, healthcare, housing, roads, public workers, and local services.

When the state refuses to raise fair revenue, the costs do not disappear. They show up in higher property taxes, higher tuition, fewer services, lower wages, local budget fights, and more pressure on working people.

The question is not whether we pay. The question is who pays, who benefits, and what kind of state we are building.

RAD NH is organizing for fair taxation.

RAD NH believes New Hampshire needs a fairer tax system that lowers the burden on working people and asks more from those with the greatest ability to pay.

We support serious consideration of revenue options that ask more from corporations, extreme wealth, high incomes, land value, and investment income, including policies such as restoring taxes on interest and dividends, taxing the rich, and exploring other progressive revenue options.

We believe public dollars should be used for public good: schools, housing, healthcare, clean energy, infrastructure, care work, and community services.

RAD NH organizes people to challenge the myth that austerity is inevitable and to build support for a government that raises and spends public resources in ways that benefit the many, not the few.

What we are fighting for

A fair tax system that lowers the burden on working people and asks the wealthy and powerful to pay what they owe.