Lacking any tangible bullet points with which to elevate their governor the New Hampshire democrat party would like you to believe that John Lynch can take credit for New Hampshire’s better than average unemployment situation. If this is true then John Lynch is responsible for the existence of Mount Washington as well because it, like the base factors that drive unemployment in New Hampshire, predate him.
New Hampshire was designed for low unemployment long before governor Lynch came along. The mechanism is one that is both relatively unique and has very little bearing on the length or breadth of federally mandated hand outs designed as assistance for those still looking aimlessly for any of the 8 million jobs that the Obama administration admits it has permanently destroyed. Put simply, we do not pay people in New Hampshire enough to survive at the same lifestyle level to which they may have become accustomed while working. When prolonged unemployment compromises your comfort, you are more inclined to find work almost anywhere work can be found.
So more New Hampshire people are looking for work, more of them are finding it, and John Lynch had nothing to do with that— which should not to be confused with how Mr. Lynch did impact employment.
Since 2007 when the recession supposedly began, he allowed the size and scope of State government to grow on the backs of employers of all sizes by 24%. This most certainly had a negative effect on employment.
Mr. Lynch signed a small business tax to “close a loophole” that would allow him to take even more money out of the job creating mechanisms of the state—in the middle of the greatest recession the country had ever seen.” He is entirely responsible for that. He allowed the democrat legislature to pass some 80 new taxes and fees under his tenure. No one else can deny him his complicity here or its impact on the state. Had he gone the other way however, and held the cost of government down, left more money in the hands of citizens and voters, and instead provided other businesses the same privileges he and the democrat party claim were giving the LLC’s an unfair tax advantage, odds are good unemployment would be even lower than it is today; but they did not. They did not because democrats like Mr. Lynch, always grow government first.
That is the lesson learned since 2006. Regardless of all the talk and hype and rhetoric, democrats will pay the government before they will let you pay yourself. Given enough seats in the legislature, they will spend as much of your money as they can, then find ways to tax it out of you. And most importantly, governor Lynch will never do anything to stop them until after it’s already too late.
