How Democrats voted, through March 20, 2019
To set the stage, these from my post “Progressives and The Proper Role of Government – and your subservience to it“:
- Referencing the new law criminalizing the use of plastic straws, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
- NH State Rep Laura Pantelakos (D): “I don’t care about protecting peoples’ Liberty“
- Hillary Clinton: “No. We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices …
The aggregated scores:
Ridiculous [e.g., “You don’t need that” -Skip]
- 65% FOR eliminating wood stoves built prior to 1986 (HB290)
- 97% FOR banning plastic straws (HB558)
- 96% FOR banning plastic or paper bags (HB560)
- 97% FOR making it easier for illegal aliens to get a driver’s license (HB397)
- 99% AGAINST ensuring that drivers’ licenses cannot be used by non-citizens to vote (HB471)
Taxes and Fees [e.g., “your money isn’t your’s; we know how to better spend it and we will just take it from you” -Skip]
- 100% FOR creating an income tax with rates set by an unelected bureaucrat (HB712)
- 99% AGAINST prohibiting an income tax (CACR12)
- 99% FOR creating an income tax with rates set by an unelected bureaucrat (SB1)
- 100% AGAINST reducing the statewide property tax (HB497-0113h)
- 99% AGAINST reducing the interest & dividends tax (HB185)
- 97% FOR creating a new tax on capital gains (HB686)
- 94% FOR creating an additional room tax (HB641)
- 99% FOR raising business taxes (HB623)
- 94% FOR creating a tax on vaping, making it harder to quit smoking (HB680)
- 98% FOR doubling and tripling various fees (HB682)
- 99% AGAINST reducing electric rates (HB477)
- 99% FOR letting bureaucrats increase electric rates (HB166)
- 99% AGAINST reducing electric rates (HB157)
Gun Control [e.g., “killing off the Second Amendment by “the death of a thousand legislative cuts” -Skip]
- 95% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB564)
- 96% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB109)
- 94% AGAINST clarifying that self-defense includes defending one’s family (HB208)
- 94% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB514)
Vote Fraud [e.g., “we can only win with illegal voters” -Skip]
- 99% FOR making it easier for out-of-staters to vote in NH (HB105)
- 100% FOR making it easier for out-of-staters to vote in NH (HB106)
- 94% FOR making voter fraud easier (HB611)
Other [e.g., “Govt knows better than you” -Skip]
- 99% FOR killing entry-level jobs for unskilled workers (HB186)
- 100% FOR recreating ObamaCare’s unaffordable and inferior care (HB233)
- 99% AGAINST merely collecting statistics about abortions (HB158)
- 100% AGAINST repealing a never-used and unconstitutional infringement on free speech (HB124)
- 99% AGAINST prohibiting “sanctuary” cities (HB232)
- 98% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB211)
- 99% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB253)
- 100% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB272)
(H/T: RLCNH / Spec Bowers)