Steve MacDonald

HB 628, which has a tax on income built into it, passed yet another hurdle today when 28 Republicans voted in favor of taxing your income. No need to get into the issues with the bill again for the moment, but if you are new to this debate you can find them here.

Our purpose is to make you aware that (1) no Democrats voted against adding an income tax in New Hampshire, and (2) it could not have passed without  Republican votes. Meaning, the threat of an income tax would have failed if they’d voted against it.

Here’s the list culled from the most recent Roll Call on this legislation.

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HB628 establishes a mandatory paid family and medical leave insurance (FMLI).

The bill requires NH Employment Security to establish and administer the FMLI fund.

Employers would pay quarterly premiums of 0.5 percent of employee wages. 

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A funny thing happened on the way to the junkyard story in New Boston – the story disappeared from WMUR.

Set the “Way-Back Machine” for the second week in January when CNHT started helping John and Mona Winslow, owners of Duke’s Garage in that town. I went to meet them and was sitting in the kitchen going through court records the lawyer who abandoned them left behind when I was informed WMUR had just shown up with a cameraman.

If you know me and CNHT you know we stay away from the established media because…they never help.

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Remember when Facebook was super-giddy-helpful with announcing that the Russians were using Facebook Ads to influence the 2016 Elections? Hey, progressives look at us pimping the narrative du jour!

Well, someone in Seattle realized Facebook was collecting cash (probably a lot of cash) for political ads and failing to properly report who was buying those ads as required by law.

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The 603 Alliance Facebook page has a troll. Her name is Nanci Fletcher. According to her Facebook profile she lives in New Boston and most days she’s apt to hurl a bit of left-wing pablum our way. It is so devoid of substance it is not worth the trouble but yesterday she crossed a line so it’s time to give the troll credit where it is due.

Under a link to a story about the tragic death of former State Senator Sam Cataldo, Nanci Fletcher of New Boston wrote, “another seat for the Dems.”

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We are happy to announce a return to GrokTalk!, New Hampshire’s only Conservative podcast from New Hampshire’s leading conservative blog site. (etc.)

Segments will be posted Monday through Friday, and each audio file will be ten minutes or less. Today’s segment is as much an equipment and editing test as anything in which I talk about an election law complaint filed by Ray Buckley and the NH Democrat Party.

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Kurt Schlichter takes a much-deserved shot at the ruling class in his latest Townhall.com column and reminds us what we must never forget.

The most basic principle that has been dumped like a Kennedy’s girlfriend is the one the self-appointed establishment hates most. It is the notion that power derives from the consent of the governed, that those using that power answer to us Normals.

They hate that idea, and they reject it. Openly. Without apology.

The Trump election was a shift away from this ruling political class which has so much disdain for regular Americans.

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The Republican party in New Hampshire has a problem about which its hands are tied, but you can help. Within its ranks are individuals who have registered and run under their brand but either refuse or are incapable of living up to the ideals.

On issues of free association, life, speech, taxes, elections, transparency, regulation, and even worker’s freedom, these elected officials, while claiming to be Republican, vote more like Democrats. All of them from towns where a registered Democrat has little or no hope of achieving office if they run the way they vote.

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For several years I’ve been posting a top-twenty most commented posts for the year. It’s fun, but it is also a flawed metric. So I’ve added a plugin that gives me a better idea of how many unique hits any given article gets. Unique page hits are a better guide than comments because most folks are reader or lurker, not commenter.

So we begin the year with a new monthly feature. GraniteGrok’s Monthly Heavy Hitters.

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This is a curious debate to me. The issue is whether local officials and more specifically local school officials can establish rules (in this case prohibiting firearms on school grounds) where the State Law does not grant them such authority.

The obvious answer should be no.

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