By nearly unanimous rubber-stamp consent 99% of New Hampshire Democrats, including all four from Merrimack, are convinced your electric rates are too low. You are just not paying enough. So, last week they voted on at least three separate occasions to “fix” that problem.
House Bill 447 would have corrected a more-than-decade-old money-laundering scheme. Democrats added a carbon tax and handed taxing authority over to a third party. That third party, RGGI, would set the tax rate, charge utilities, who would charge you. RGGI would then write a big check to the state. The plan was for higher taxes and more money for Concord’s coffers, without legislators voting for any increase.
Republican majorities, unable to repeal this scam, rebated nearly all of the kickbacks to ratepayers in previous legislatures. HB447 would have completed that process and provided rate relief. Ninety-Nine percent of House Democrats rejected that. They want you to pay more.
Likewise, with HB157, given the opportunity to make the energy landscape more rate-payer friendly, 99% of Democrats chose the opposite.
You Didn’t Build That
None of this is surprising. This Democrat majority legislature has pushed massive cost increases on the backs of job creators and citizens this session. They have proposed massive expansions of government. Added fiscal and regulatory burdens on top of the cost of living and doing business in the Granite State. All to put their spending priorities above your own. Milking your lifestyle to fund capricious and inefficient expansions of government and denying you choices like the ability to vote those who would tax you out of office.
HB166 hands taxing authority over to unelected bureaucrats. It allows them to increase your electric rates to fund acts of government without anyone ever casting a vote. Every levy against your income for a government purpose is a tax. Every action of government that raises your costs is a tax. And even though New Hampshire has some of the highest electric rates in the country they must not be high enough. 99% of New Hampshire House Democrats just approved it.
For those keeping score at home in Merrimack, Democrats Nancy Murphy, Rosemarie Rung, Kathryn Stack, and Wendy Thomas voted against ratepayers, job creators, and families, in all three instances.
Your Republican reps., they stood with you.
