What would you think of a football team that runs the same play over and over and over again … despite that play not just failing to advance the ball, but actually losing yardage?
Well … if you think that football team is coached by the NHGOP leaders in the NH House, I wouldn’t blame you.
The same NHGOP leaders who got shellacked in the 2022 midterms are continuing to run the same playbook that got them shellacked … in three words: BUSINESS TAX CUTS!
Apparently, it has never occurred to these NHGOP leaders that voters paying stratospheric local property taxes don’t think businesses are overtaxed and that these voters desperately need and would be receptive to a HARD cap on the annual growth in local property taxes. But, needless to say, the NHGOP can’t support that: LOCAL CONTROL! Right … except for developers who want to erect massive apartment complexes, who get to evade local control by going to that kangaroo court euphemistically called the Housing Appeals Board.
And, apparently, it doesn’t register with these NHGOP leaders that ignoring WOKE is a losing strategy. Despite the supposed “ban” on CRT, the public school bureaucracy continues to jam DEI … Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which is a lovely euphemism for cultural-marxism, which is CRT by another name … down the throats of our students. How about banning DEI or at least cutting state funding for school districts that push DEI? Oh no … can’t do that … LOCAL CONTROL!
GOP … and rational unaffiliated … voters in general, are far, far, far more concerned with the threat posed by woke and weaponized government than with cutting business taxes. That is why Ron DeSantis … whose name is synonymous with fighting woke … has become so popular. Same for Governor Youngkin in Virginia. If the descent of the NHGOP into an irrelevant minority is to be arrested, it is by similarly fighting woke. Not by ignoring woke and shrieking: BUSINESS TAX CUTS!
