One of my pet peeves is politicians who talk about fiscal responsibility or spending or tax cuts but who happily, if not greedily, accept federal money with open arms. Chris Sununu is petting my peeves, if you catch my drift.
We’ve spent the last few weeks talking about the budget. Tax cuts, the state sending money back to towns, including property tax relief. These are all good things, and I have said more than once that Sununu, while bad on social issues, has been good on guns and taxes and budgets. Full stop.
This, however, is incompatible with being “good” on issues like taxes and spending.
“We don’t need more money per se, but lord knows we know how to spend dollars better than anybody in the country,” Sununu, a Republican, said this week during a wide-ranging, on-camera interview with the Washington Examiner in the New Hampshire Capitol. “If there’s dollars out there from the federal government, you bet we’ll take them because we just know how to do it and deliver results.”
We don’t need it, but since we’re better with how we spend it (maybe even the best), we’ll take it. From whom? The people whose taxes you just cut? Well, yes.
This is money laundering. Taxation by other means. We gave it back only to tell the feds, hey! If you take it, we’ll take some of that!
This should offend Republicans, even the Sununu homers who are afraid to say boo when the Governor missteps.
This is a misstep.
That money must be taken from someone, probably our grandchildren (great-grandchildren) who are not even born yet; not even able to say hey, WTF dude! We haven’t even earned it, and you’re taking it from us? Talk about taxation without representation.
Wasn’t there a revolution or something about that a while ago…if they’re still teaching then?
This is Democrat territory, ruling class establishment smoke and mirrors, and not a position we as Republicans should embrace or condone. A posture that does not bode well for us if Chris T Sununu runs for and wins a US Senate seat, and that leads to another pet peeve.
We are supposed to send “representatives” to congress to protect us from this sort of thing. To halt the fiscal pat-downs and robbery legalized by Federal pimps who then barter for the distinction of who brought home the most bacon and then brag to their victims about how well they did.
And whether you are a member of Congress, a governor, or even a state legislator, you can’t claim to be doing more to support local control by cutting state taxes or ensuring more money for towns and cities (local control, local priorities) and then proudly announce how glad you are to accept money from the Feds who are undoing all your work by other means.
Even if he promised to give it all back to the state’s residents, this is still advocating the laundromat mentality that abets the “not our money” culture in DC.
But that appears to be who Chris Sununu is, and the only positive thing we can say is that any Democrat would be exponentially worse.
