Democrats love taxes because they love spending. There’s no such thing as enough spending or taxes to pay for it. To that point, Massachusetts is taxing remote workers in New Hampshire. CNBC asked Gov. Sununu about it, and the NH Dems decided to make it about their Family Medical Leave Bill.
Related: Family Medical Leave Insurance Boondoggle
Governor Sununu never mentions that bill or any specific bill. What he says is, “Democrats try to put income taxes on my desk all the time, and I veto that garbage.”
The State Democrat Party’s go-to take away from that is this.
Our Dems have gone all in here.
Whatever the governor is saying, it’s about their Family Medical Leave Bill. But their Tweet only includes a looped clip of “and I veto that garbage.” What, no context but your own?
I took it upon myself to grab both the hot take – the context of the Governor’s remarks “on that garbage,” and the entire segment.
Here’s the hot take. It’s under two minutes.
All I can say is, yes, your Family Medical Leave bill, which the governor vetoed, which by order of the state would remove wages from a worker’s paycheck, is an Income tax.
It is!
I’d like to thank the New Hampshire Democrat party so much for admitting it. Family Medical Leave is an Income tax. (Of course, we already knew that.)
We should also mention that we are not aware of any increase in demand for (FMLI) in the private sector even when we had 2% unemployment and it was a worker’s market. For those on the Left who forgot or never knew, when employers compete for employees, they come up with incentive and benefit plans to entice people into their orbit. If Family Medical Leave as imagined by the political Left were a hot ticket, we’d have seen insurance companies making it affordable for job creators to use as bait.
That didn’t happen, and Democrats will never admit that just like they will never admit it could happen organically without government interference.
Along the same vein, anytime anyone claimed their Family Medical Leave plan was not a tax on income (an income Tax) triggered Leftists would insist that was not true. [Here’s is one of the more famous examples of that from our archives.]
But here they are, without any mention of FMLI, tying the Governor’s generic remarks about vetoing income taxes to their Family Medical Leave Legislation.
Thanks for coming out of the closet.
Here’s the full five-minute interview. It’s quite good.
H/T Greg Moore
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