This caught my eye earlier this week in the Union Leader (reformatted, emphasis mine):
DOWN TO BUSINESS: Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Woodburn of Dalton likened a GOP effort to cut the business profits tax and business enterprise tax to “political footballs.”
[Senate GOP wants to lower NH business taxes]. Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford, and Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, touted legislation to cut the BPT from 8.5 percent to 8 percent over four years, and cut the BET by 10 percent over three years, to reinforce New Hampshire as a business-friendly state.
Woodburn rebutted talk that the tax cuts would create more jobs and raise wages. With the state budget constraints, Woodburn says he would focus more on the argument that such bills are fiscally unsound. “The pre-game is over and we’re ready to get on the field and get to work,” he said.
I will ask again – unsound for whom?
The private sector or the Government? The answer is rather simple: Andy Sanborn certainly has always said it was about removing the burden of Government from the necks of business – and that is the proper thing to do. Here, however, we see Woodburn take the opposite side – that Government must come first. For Democrats, the Party of Government, not one single dime should be cut from its coffers. It is inconceivable, it seems to most Democrats, that anyone would want to cut the size of Government.
It always amazes me (ok, not really and not any more) that the idea that that Democrat version of the Proper Role of Government must first impoverish more a given class of folks in order to “do good”. Of course they never see it that way – but they will never answer the questions (Steve’s favorites) “How much is enough? When is enough, enough?”
Andy makes is clear from this post back from 2012:
