There are those among us who are concerned that New Hampshire sends more federal tax dollars out of the state than it gets back. The same people, typically Democrats and Moderate Republicans, argue for more Federal meddling in state affairs. The same people who also complain about “out of state influence” in local elections.
If you send more money to DC so you can then act the hero when we get it back, complete with strings attached, other sources of out of state money will find those people and try to keep them in office so that central planners can milk all 50 teats for as much as possible and then sit in on the “hostage negotiations” when you want or need some of it back.
But wouldn’t this make more sense?
Wouldn’t it make more sense if the people we elected to Federal office, (and even to the governorship and state legislature) spent more time and energy finding ways to keep our money in New Hampshire in the first place? Consider the simplicity of this idea.
If the money never leaves, we don’t have to wast time, energy, and even money, to get it back. If it never leaves, there is less hand-wringing about how we pay more out than comes back in. If it never leaves is stays here to be invested in local needs, businesses, jobs, and opportunities.
I know, it will never work. Money is the blood that greases the wheels of national power. Promoting policies that tax us less and keep more money in the hands of the people who actually earned it cuts out the greed, avarice, power plays, lobbyists, and special interests.
Can’t elect people who would do such a thing as that. We need legislators who write Tolstoy-esque length bills that describe how the Federal government will create another massive bureaucracy to manage how we will get to keep more of our own money. That’s how Washington works.
So New Hampshire Democrats. Would you work harder, regardless of the office, to keep the Federal government out of our wallets and to keep our money here so we don’t have to keep sending professional liars to congress to chase it down for their own political advantage? Or do you prefer the current system, where Federal politicians jockey for hand outs that they can then direct at pet projects that just happen–somehow–to benefit their donors or voting base?
Wouldn’t it be easier and better, if we just all worked to keep the money here in the first place?
