Since the beginning of the year, countless editorials and opposite editorial pages across the Granite State have been one large veritable whine-fest…A seemingly never-ending weeping and gnashing of teeth over cuts in various line items of the state budget. Hand-in-hand with all the pissing and moaning, is the rank demagoguing of New Hampshire House Republicans for the choices they are making. If Liberals are good at nothing else, they are certainly adept at blaming everything bad on Republicans, even after it was they who made the mess.
Noticeably absent from all of this cacophony, noise, caterwauling and fit-pitching is any reasonable alternative or meaningful way to fund all these sacred cash cows that each their loyal patrons willingly advocate for keeping and maintaining. It is as if there is no budget shortfall or structural deficits realized. Call it fiscal deniability.
“Those evil Republicans! They are cutting (“insert esteemed cash cow here”).
And, in predictable fashion, the noisy screeching of the liberal magpies checker the ambience with demagoguery and finger-wagging, replete with the requisite vitriol of class warfare. Like sculptured nails on a chalk board, the tax-and spend liberals still offer no reasonable suggestions even when they run out of steam. We would be remiss to overlook the much-heard faux straw man charges like, “Republicans hate children,” or, “Republicans are stealing from the working class.”
A week ago Friday the esteemed fishwrapper, The Concord Monitor weighed in with an editorial admonishing its’ readers that, Killing ‘car tax’ will make things worse. When House Republicans sought to repeal the motor vehicle registration surcharge, The editorial
staff called it a, “missive filled with the usual blather [sic] about “tax and spend” Democrats…” The editorial continues on the acknowledge the temporary two-year nature of the measure, but, in the next breath points to the $45 million, the surcharge generated to become, “a major source of funding for the state Department of Transportation.”
And but of course what was to follow? Transportation Commissioner George Campbell laments to lawmakers 845 job losses, projects like road paving and bridge construction being put off and a loss of matching funds. “Don’t cut my cash cow.”
Talk about lies. The legislature in power prior to 2010 never really had any intention of making the surcharge a temporary measure. That is not the way government works. Once a revenue stream is generated, those funds become like the “heroin” of hacks: Once they are hooked, they won’t give them up, and to hell with the taxpayers.
The griping and demagoguery will likely continue with no signs of letting up. Here is what is clear: The pre-2010 legislature lived in denial that the State was not in sound fiscal shape. Had we returned them their majorities, we would be fast-tracked on the road to fiscal insolvency. The only question the liberal apparatchik will continue to ignore is, “What happens when the state runs out of money?” To the current body in power, I say, ignore these spoiled children and soldier on.
