With a proportionate decrease in property taxes, yes. There's a reason why our elderly migrate to Florida, and it's not just because of the weather.

A county income tax would be a great mechanism to support more community-based services for mental illness, for example.

Not only would I vote against an income tax, I would do anything and everything possible to have the politicians that voted for it run out of office.

four dumbasses supporting more taxes.. four dumbasses that either don't work or like supporting deadbeats

Having the Rockingham County Complex in Brentwood..... I feel and am for the residence of Brentwood should not be charged for County Taxes on their tax bills....

No democrats are commenting. Are they afraid?

Delmar, don't you realize that this country does not have a tax problem, it has a spending problem, STOP the madness. If we give politicians more money they only know one thing to do with it, SPEND it. You give them a dollar they will want 2. Live within your budget.

This is the dumbest idea yet. Allowing the county to collect income tax would just open up the door of allowing the state to down shift more of it's budget problems down to the counties. This would result in the counties to collect more and more each year.

Just because the county complex is in Brentwood doesn't mean your town is the only one fitting the bill for it. All property owners in Rockingham county pay for through their property taxes.

That would definitely create a most interesting scenario around the state of NH where people would look to see which counties provided the most services at what income tax rate so we can have "musical migration" around NH as people move around to gather up services that they want/need. Yipee...."musical counties"

And so it starts. With Democrats taking control of the State House and the Legislature the talk of an income tax starts anew. Want to control local taxes, stop handing out automatic pay raises and unsustainable retirement benefits to state, local and educational union members.

All this would do is make " rich and poor" counties. Cheshire , where the rep who proposed this is from is already a poorer county. Once he runs off the wealthier folks who live there it will only get poorer.

Every different type of tax requires people to administer it. Transferring tax collection from one tax to another will cost more to administer and why would one believe that retirement income will definitely not be taxed in an income tax?

Yes Gar: You are so right. Those damn public workers are the cause of all our fiscal woes!!!! Teachers, cops and firemen should all work for a nickel an hour and get no benefits!!!! Yeah that will solve the problem. If you haven't noted my sarcasm yet...... Insert sarcasm now. Wake up and smell the coffee. Cops firefighters and teachers are not the enemy here. Offer less pay and fewer benefits and see how many people will line up to do these jobs.... Not many. You are the typical cool aid drinker who wants all the services....someone to educate your kids, respond if your house is on fire, or if someone is committing a crime against you or your family, but you don't want to pay for it. Find a new target.....and a new argument.....this one is getting old.

There go the Dems again: it's ok to have an income (or sales) tax because it will lower our property taxes. I know that this won't be the last time I have to say this, but here goes:
NO STATE THAT HAS IMPLEMENTED AN INCOME TAX HAS SEEN THEIR PROPERTY TAXES DECLINE!

Why not a renter's tax to ensure that everyone pays a fair share? I love that term, "fair share". It can be used to justify just about anything because it means nothing.

How much is fair? Ir drives me nuts when Obama says 'to do what's fair' or 'do the right thing'. According to who? If the Dems can't find enough funding to cover expenses ....duh, cut expenses. The last legislature could do it. Oh, wait, those were the Republicans in majority. The Senate majority better stay together.

Taxation is so bad. Look at Portsmouth. Taxation there is really high, and then they use it to improve the city and its standard of living, thereby making it more popular, which increases property values.

here it comes.