We will argue over the finer points, but at the end of the legislative day, those don’t matter. Republicans used their majority to give back. They lowered taxes and reduced government interference over your daily life. Democrats are using their majority to take things away from you.
As I noted here, I trust you to make better decisions with your own money, even if you are a registered Democrat than anyone in government. There’s just no sensible reason to believe that a few hundred folks who gather in Concord a few days a week for a few months out of the year, have a better sense of what you need and want in your life than you do.
The departments they empower are no better.
That trust applies to you as a person, friend, or family member.
Those relationships are not just unique; they are dynamic. Needs and desires change. No one can know better how to address these than you, on your schedule, with the resources you worked hard to accumulate. Income, property, all of it.
If you are a job creater, you are moving at the speed of business, to borrow an old UPS tag line. The needs of your business, employees, and customers are better served if you can maximize your ability to react. To change, overcome and adapt.
Whether you punch a clock, collect a salary, work from home, run a startup or even a non-profit, you are the best judge of what works, when, and how. On your schedule or that of those who rely on your product or service.
No one has said it often enough, but when Republicans cut taxes and regulations, this is the ultimate expression of trust. They are giving you back your power to choose. Letting you decide how or when to grow.
In contrast, New Hampshire Democrats took their majority and did precisely the opposite. Their priorities are clear.
They are committed to taking those choices away from you. They trust a few politicians and bureaucrats more than you, your family, or your employer. They even trust politicians and bureaucrats in the State capital more than the friends and neighbors you chose to run your cities and towns.
And they trust the career politicians and swamp critters in DC more than anyone else. Just ask the candidates running for the Democratic nomination. Locals are swarming over their meet and greets, pandering to their ideas. Ideas that to the very last, take resources from your pocket and decisions from your hands.
Policies that redistribute wealth, power, and trust from your hands to theirs.
Decisions made in the even more Distant Washington DC. By people, you’ll rarely see or never meet. Folks over whom you have no contact and little if any influence by design.
Democrats do not trust you to spend your money on what they want. So, instead of giving your power back, like Republicans, they take more of it from you.
And if you haven’t figured out how much they need, to the left, there is no such thing as enough.
