On Budgets, Uncivil NH Democrats, And How They Still Don't Trust You With Your Own Money - Granite Grok

On Budgets, Uncivil NH Democrats, And How They Still Don’t Trust You With Your Own Money

NH Democrats fleece taxpayers againOn page A2 of the “Manchester Paper” there is a long write up about the nearly unanimous support for the new state budget.  If you read it with a discerning eye and ear, however, something becomes obvious.   While Republicans are quoted as happy with the results and view the budget as a responsible reflection of spending growth relative to things like inflation and actual need, the Democrats are using it as an opportunity to poke Republicans in the eye to promote their grow government first tax and spend agenda.

While everyone agrees that a bi-partisan budget was achieved and that it should serve the state well (or well enough), leading Democrats had to pepper their comments with modifiers and remarks like this…

After the deep cuts and radical ideology of the last legislature…” – Democrat Governor Maggie Hassan

“There are relatively few changes to the budget the House sent over that restored many of the devastating reductions made in the biennium we are in now.” – Democrat Mary Jane Wallner

A bit less direct dig…

“The budgets we approved today are both a product of compromise and a statement of restoring investments in our citizens, communities and state.” – Democrat House Speaker Terrie Norelli

And from the pro grow-government first progressive think tank in disguise–The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute…

New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director Jeff McLynch said the budget begins to reverse some of the damage done two years ago.

(That “damage,” by the way, was not screwing taxpayers just to expand state government.)

“Nevertheless, it also represents a missed opportunity. Budget negotiators could not agree on the suspension of costly and ineffective business tax breaks or on other changes in tax policy,” McLynch said.

Make no mistake.  Jeff McLynch is a progressive water carrier of the higest order.

The mere notion that letting a business keep its own money is costly and ineffective makes for great socialist propaganda but it is exactly backwards.  And by “other changes in tax policy” McLynch means, failure to increase taxes on you and I and your employer so progressives then get to decide how to grow the state; because clearly the government (and experts like McLynch) know better how to do that than we do.

So let me sum this up.

First, New Hampshire Democrats would like the budget a lot more if it raised more taxes.  If they could have taken more of your money from you they would have been much happier becasue it would have helped them undo more devestating cuts that allowed you to keep all that money away from them.

Second, this is what passes for civility from the left.  They can’t even offer a quote about a bi-partisan budget without throwing in their bitchy little narratives.

Third, No Medicaid expansion to pull people off their own insurance and into the chilling embrace of lousy “care” managed by bureaucrats and paid for (for eternity) by taxpayers.  (Democrats want it so it must inevitably grow government at your expense.)

Fourth, Businesses get to keep more of what they earn for another year to invest on growth, employee wages, and heaven forbid–themselves.  (You didn’t build it, all your money belongs to them.  They beleive it and they give away that truth if you listen.)

Fifth,  Republicans prevented Democrats from hiking multiple taxes on people who are in the worst possible place to be taxed further.  No Democrat Gas tax hike, No additional Democrat ten cent cigarette tax hike (we do still see the old reduction expire) , No Democrat Fishing license tax hike, no Democrat tax on tips, and I’m not sure but I expect there were more attempted Democrat tax increases I am missing.   So Republicans, and Republicans alone were the driving force that protected low and middle income workers and the unemployed in New Hampshire from being fiscally squeezed to death by Democrats who never met a tax they didn’t want to start or raise.

Now… you have to ask yourself, what is more radical, devastating, damaging or ineffective?  Republicans letting you keep the money you legally earned and need to invest in goods, services, charities, causes, and just getting by in your own life and with your family…or Democrats looking under every rock and behind every tree for ways to tax the crap out of you or your employer so the Government can spend it on what benefits government the most?

True Republicans (Conservatives, Libertarians, you know, TEA Party folks) think you deserve to make those spending decisions first.  They trust you to make better spending choices than the Government.  They believe you will be more active and effective in solving real issues locally than at the state or even national level.  And Democrats?  They can’t stop themselves from defining the trust the TEA Party has in you as irresponsible, radical, damaging, or devastating.  It’s not Republican’s they don’t trust, it is you.    

Democrats are arrogant, uncivil, intolerant, children who want to play with your wages and savings, and they will grasp at any straw or any opportunity to convince you that you don’t deserve that trust and that Republicans are wrong to give it to you.

You would do well in the future to show them as much or more distrust with your money as they have for you.  They will take it from you every chance they get if you let them.  If you let them they will spend money that neither you or your children have even made yet.   The only way to truly stop them is to keep them out of office.

Update- Clarified ‘Republicans’ more precisely as TEA Party Conservatives and libertarians.

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