Progressive groups are mad at their political puppets. How can they possibly get their way if Republicans are running everything? Is the answer to move to Vermont, Massachusetts, CT, RI, NY, NJ, even Maine? No, ruin, New Hampshire! Well, not yet!
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Republicans are running the store for the next two years, and Governor Sununu had some encouraging words during his victory party. He says he’d like to cut some taxes.
In a press gaggle Tuesday night outside his campaign party, Sununu said he would push for cuts to the meals and rooms tax to support hotels and restaurants, and potentially a future cut to the business enterprise tax in his next two-year budget.
“Because it can be done,” Sununu said. “And it can be done responsibly.”
I’d imagine we have a different notion of what responsible means in this context, but Sununu gets part of it. Lower taxes attract more growth, add jobs, increase commerce, and that leads to more revenue.
I’m more the “let’s do less revenue” sort because “a lot less spending.” Any path that puts more money in politicians’ hands is the wrong path; the one Dems try to pave with your gold every chance they get.
It’s instructive. Democrats literally try to get their entire agenda through no matter what. The result is they manage a few wins. It is a tactic we’ve encouraged on the right.
You only have two sessions. Two years. Not only is there no guarantee that you will get another majority in 2022; statistically, you won’t. We flip majorities around here almost as fast as sexual predators change their gender. Man, I feel like a woman!
So to borrow from Larry the Cable guy, Get her done.
Change We Can Keep in Our Pockets
The last budget was a compromise. As usual, Dems crank up spending and drain funds to pay for it. But given the ongoing dance of the COVIDIOTS, we’re looking at a revenue shortfall against that spending. It’s not as bad as if we’d had a Democrat governor (or a “republican” like Charlie Baker), but it’s a thing that a One-Trick-Donkey Democrat majority would have raised taxes to address.
They’d have grown government too. That’s all they know. And it looks like New Hampshire got that and just said, no! And while I doubt they remember, in 2011-2012, the O’Brien lead House trimmed 800 million in structural debt left by spend-happy Democrats. Republicans shrank government.
How hard can 200 million be to address? Well, the Democrats will wail like the wives of lepers over every dime in taxes we cut even though (before the Casedemic) tax cuts lead the Granite State to record growth, job creation, prosperity, and plenty of tax revenue.
Gov. Sununu suggested cutting the rooms and meals tax.
This would be the best time to do that. It sends a signal to the struggling food and hospitality industries that we want to make New Hampshire more inviting to tourism. Make it more affordable. Let those extra dollars trickle into the pockets of servers and job creators instead of bureaucrats and politicians.
Democrats will hate it, but you’ll love it. You could use a break. And we promised you that if you voted Republican, they’d take into account that they asked you to give up some work and pay for this dopey virus and try to make sure the government took a turn taking a pay cut.
And Governor Sununu has said that’s his plan. Now we need to happily apply the necessary pressure to make sure it happens.
