There was an article in one of the broadsheets this week that observed: A majority of NH College students leave the state after graduation.
My first suspicion was that most of that majority came from outside the state. They never lived here in the first place. They voted here as if they lived here, but never changed their driver’s license or permanent mailing address. They were never committed to New Hampshire. And it is a problem the left has been wailing about for as long as I have lived in the Granite State. They call it the brain drain problem.
So in one breath they moan about the inability of the system to retain graduates who never lived here as students while insisting they “can’t know their intent”–with the exception that they intend them to vote for Democrats before they leave. A voting privilege these students pay for through out-of-state tuition rates that in-state New Hampshire student voters do not have to pay.
We should just call that what it is. A discriminatory UNH poll tax.
