A House Democrat in charge of the Caucus Congressional Campaign Committee has a suggestion for her party. Stop focusing on the outrage of the day. Pay attention to kitchen table issues. That got me thinking. What does that even mean to Democrat’s, especially here in New Hampshire?
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A brief review of their legisaltive priorities tells the story. New Hampshire Democrat kitchen table issues are, Banning convenience items you might use at or around your kitchen table.
- Giving illegal aliens driver licenses.
- Raising taxes on you and your employer.
- Passing an income tax.
- Making it harder for young people and low-skilled workers to find a job.
- Making electricity cost more while making it harder to punish them for making it cost more.
- Making it harder to quit smoking.
- Taxing everything because “global warming.”
- Pushing unfunded mandates on local towns.
- Taking more of your money.
- Leaving the door open for sanctuary cities.
- Regulating job creators.
- Putting children at risk.
- Taking even more of your money.
- Turning law abiding citizens into felons.
I can’t speak for everyone in New Hampshire but I believe the majority of them. None of these things is important to my family. No one gets up in the morning and thinks we need the government to make more decision-making power form us by raising taxes or fees. We’re not clamoring to pay more for electricity or to give up our rights to bureaucrats or a bigger more expansive government.
But that is what Democrats want. Those are their kitchen table issues. Rob the citizens to grow government. Make it harder for voters to undo their handiwork. And make them less free.
How New Hampshire Democrats have Voted through April 11th, 2019
97% FOR banning plastic straws (HB558)
96% FOR banning plastic or paper bags (HB560)
65% FOR eliminating wood stoves built prior to 1986 (HB290)
Taxes and fees
100% FOR creating an income tax with rates set by an unelected bureaucrat (HB712)
99% FOR raising business taxes (HB623)
99% FOR letting bureaucrats increase electric rates (HB166)
99% FOR creating an income tax with rates set by an unelected bureaucrat (SB1)
99% FOR increasing state spending by a massive $1.5 Billion, or 13% (HB1)
99% FOR creating an income tax, and new taxes on capital gains, vaping, and sports betting; increasing business taxes (HB2)
98% FOR doubling and tripling various fees (HB682)
97% FOR creating a new tax on capital gains (HB686)
96% FOR creating an additional room tax (HB641)
94% FOR creating a tax on vaping, making it harder to quit smoking (HB680)
94% FOR creating an additional room tax (HB641)
93% FOR unfunded mandate raising towns’ and schools’ retirement costs (HB616)
100% AGAINST reducing the statewide property tax (HB497-0113h)
99% AGAINST reducing the interest & dividends tax (HB185)
99% AGAINST prohibiting an income tax (CACR12)
99% AGAINST reducing electric rates (HB477)
99% AGAINST reducing electric rates (HB157)
99% AGAINST replacing a mandatory family leave plan funded by an income tax with a voluntary plan (HB2-1435h)
Gun control
96% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB109)
96% FOR creating a guilty until proven innocent standard (HB696)
95% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB564)
95% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB564)
94% FOR protecting criminals by disarming law-abiding citizens (HB514)
94% AGAINST clarifying that self-defense includes defending one’s family (HB208)
Vote fraud
100% FOR making it easier for out-of-staters to vote in NH (HB106)
99% FOR making it easier for out-of-staters to vote in NH (HB105)
97% FOR making it easier for illegal aliens to get a driver’s license (HB397)
94% FOR making voter fraud easier (HB611)
99% AGAINST ensuring that drivers’ licenses cannot be used by non-citizens to vote (HB471)
Other
100% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB272)
100% FOR recreating ObamaCare’s unaffordable and inferior care (HB233)
99% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB253)
99% FOR killing entry-level jobs for unskilled workers (HB186)
98% FOR micromanaging businesses’ hiring practices (HB211)
100% AGAINST repealing a never-used and unconstitutional infringement on free speech (HB124)
99% AGAINST prohibiting “sanctuary” cities (HB232)
99% AGAINST merely collecting statistics about abortions (HB158)
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Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
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