NH House Democrat Status Report: Freedom much, Regressives?

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How Democrats voted, through March 20, 2019

To set the stage, these from my post “Progressives and The Proper Role of Government – and your subservience to it“:

  • Referencing the new law criminalizing the use of plastic straws, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
  • NH State Rep Laura Pantelakos (D): “I don’t care about protecting peoples’ Liberty“
  • Hillary Clinton: “No. We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices …

The aggregated scores:

Ridiculous [e.g., “You don’t need that” -Skip]

  • 65% FOR eliminating wood stoves built prior to 1986 (HB290)
  • 97% FOR banning plastic straws (HB558)
  • 96% FOR banning plastic or paper bags (HB560)
  • 97% FOR making it easier for illegal aliens to get a driver’s license (HB397)
  • 99% AGAINST ensuring that drivers’ licenses cannot be used by non-citizens to vote (HB471)

Taxes and Fees [e.g., “your money isn’t your’s; we know how to better spend it and we will just take it from you” -Skip]

  • 100% FOR creating an income tax with rates set by an unelected bureaucrat (HB712)
  • 99% AGAINST prohibiting an income tax (CACR12)
  • 99% FOR creating an income tax with rates set by an unelected bureaucrat (SB1)
  • 100% AGAINST reducing the statewide property tax (HB497-0113h)
  • 99% AGAINST reducing the interest & dividends tax (HB185)
  • 97% FOR creating a new tax on capital gains (HB686)
  • 94% FOR creating an additional room tax (HB641)
  • 99% FOR raising business taxes (HB623)
  • 94% FOR creating a tax on vaping, making it harder to quit smoking (HB680)
  • 98% FOR doubling and tripling various fees (HB682)
  • 99% AGAINST reducing electric rates (HB477)
  • 99% FOR letting bureaucrats increase electric rates (HB166)
  • 99% AGAINST reducing electric rates (HB157)

Gun Control [e.g., “killing off the Second Amendment by “the death of a thousand legislative cuts” -Skip]

  • 95% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB564)
  • 96% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB109)
  • 94% AGAINST clarifying that self-defense includes defending one’s family (HB208)
  • 94% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB514)

Vote Fraud [e.g., “we can only win with illegal voters” -Skip]

  • 99% FOR making it easier for out-of-staters to vote in NH (HB105)
  • 100% FOR making it easier for out-of-staters to vote in NH (HB106)
  • 94% FOR making voter fraud easier (HB611)

Other [e.g., “Govt knows better than you” -Skip]

  • 99% FOR killing entry-level jobs for unskilled workers (HB186)
  • 100% FOR recreating ObamaCare’s unaffordable and inferior care (HB233)
  • 99% AGAINST merely collecting statistics about abortions (HB158)
  • 100% AGAINST repealing a never-used and unconstitutional infringement on free speech (HB124)
  • 99% AGAINST prohibiting “sanctuary” cities (HB232)
  • 98% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB211)
  • 99% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB253)
  • 100% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB272)

(H/T: RLCNH / Spec Bowers)

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  • Skip

    Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

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