The State Ledger

New Hampshire policy, followed through to the outcome.

Policy

Pension Cost Sharing

The state formerly paid a share of the employer contributions municipalities and school districts make to the New Hampshire Retirement System for teachers, police officers and firefighters. That share was reduced and then ended, leaving the full employer cost with local employers.

2 analyses

Analyses

Explainer · New Hampshire

When the State Stops Paying, Somebody Else Starts

A cost the state stops carrying does not stop existing. What the record supports is a fiscal-capacity argument, not a one-to-one claim that every dollar of forgone state revenue became a dollar of property tax.

Scorecard · Sullivan County

Margaret Drye, What's the Taxpayer ROI?

A comparison of two decisions by the representative for Sullivan County District 7: a bill that would have moved $28 million of pension cost off local property taxes, and an expansion of state education spending to $51.6 million.

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