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Automatic Tax Increases: Without Automatic Rollback: HB 482

February 14, 2019

The bill HB 482 establishes a process for transfers from the revenue stabilization reserve account, the Rainy Day Fund, when state revenues fall short of plan. It also adds changes to the rates of the business profits tax and business enterprise tax automatically, when the Rainy Day Fund hits a zero balance. Got that? This … Read more

What Does the Brooklyn Bridge Have to do with Socialized Medicine?

February 14, 2019 Peter Lemiska

The idea of Medicare for all, as proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, and many others on the left, sounds amazing. They’re a little vague on details, but as I understand it, everyone on U.S. soil, whether they pay into the system or not, would be entitled to free quality healthcare from birth until death. … Read more

One Year Ago: Remember Parkland Because It is How Government Gets Your Kids Killed

February 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The tragedy that would become the Parkland massacre happened a year ago today. It was preventable. The barriers to prevention were the result of incompetent government at multiple levels. From policies forced down from the oval office to a ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude from the FBI, the local Sheriff’s office, and school administrators. Even armed security … Read more

Hold The Line – GrokInterview with Kimberly Morin

February 14, 2019 Skip

Before all of the testimony on the Democrat Second Amendment infringing bills started, I caught up with the Womens’ Defense League honchos (and Groksters!) Kimberly Morin and Susan Olsen who graciously agreed to spend a few minutes with GraniteGrok. Here, Kimberly Morin shares her thoughts with me AND sends a message to Gov. Chris Sununu … Read more

Picking Up NH’s Welcome Mat to Business

February 14, 2019

What’s the issue? HB623 and SB 135 establish the rates of the business profits tax (BPT) and the business enterprise tax (BET) for taxpayer tax years ending on or after December 31, 2019 and for subsequent tax years, and repeals rate reductions effective in 2021. These are one of the more meaningful pieces of legislation … Read more

Is Pelosi Covering for Democrat Rep Charged With Drugging and Molesting a Teenage Girl?

February 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

California Democrat Congressional Rep. Tony Cardenas has been accused of drugging and molesting a sixteen-year-old. When the news broke nine months ago, Nancy Pelosi said there should be an ethics investigation. To date, no such action has even been announced.

Gun Control in the Statehouse yesterday

February 14, 2019 Skip

I have not been posting a lot lately and I HAVE to start making the changes to get out of my rut. However, along with Groksters Kimberly (her reporting here), Tom, and Susan, I was at the Statehouse all day to cover the hearings for Democrat / civilian disarmament bills: 2 in Education that would … Read more

Poll Question: Should NH Require Abortion Providers to Have Some Medical Training?

February 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We asked our Facebook fans if New Hampshire should require abortion providers to have medical training. At present, it is not necessary. Anyone can perform an abortion in the Granite State. There is no requirement that these procedures even be reported. So, anyone could abort, and we’d never know.

Rep. Liz Cheney Asks Green New Deal ‘Experts’: How Did You Travel to Washington?

February 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Ending Transportation as we know it is a feature of the Green New Deal. What we’ve come to consider modern vehicles like planes, trains, and automobiles would be mothballed. So, when four “experts” arrived in Washington to speak to Congress on the plan Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney had a question. How’d you get here?

ACLU Sues New Hampshire on Behalf Of Out-of-State Voters

February 15, 2019February 14, 2019

Essentially admitting Democrats would have trouble winning statewide elections without thousands of out-of-state college students, the NH-ACLU has found two foolish Dartmouth students to be litigants in a suit to end the practice of NH voters having to choose NH as their lawful domicile.

Is there justification for rebellion and revolution?

February 13, 2019

There’s a lot of conversation now surrounding rebellion, and breaking rules and laws out of a sense of moral responsibility. Just last month, Merrimack State Representative Rosemarie Rung, verbally went after Merrimack State Representative Jeanine Notter, for refusing to comply with the unconstitutional rule to ban firearms on the House floor of the NH State … Read more

Sheriff: Conceal-Carry Permit Holder “eliminated a threat” by Shooting the Suspect.

February 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Do you carry at the Dentist Office? I mean, in the office. A concealed carry permit holder in Kingsport Tennessee was (probably) thumbing through a copy of Reader’s Digest. ‘Laughter is the Best Medicine.’ The door opens and a man comes in whom we’ll call ‘The Husband’ and guns down a woman we’ll call ‘The … Read more

Mr. Cuomo Goes to Washington to Beg Mr. Trump for Money

February 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

As noted last week, New York State has a 2.3 billion dollar spending problem. They already spent it. Plan to spend it. Benevolent government is expensive. It consumes lots of dollars. Mostly on the machine of government. Which rarely suffers when the collection plate comes up short. But 2.3 billion is a lot of Cheetos.

Florida School Guarded by Combat Vet with Kel-Tec “Bullpup” rifle and a Glock 19X

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Democrats are looking for the fastest way to allow local school districts to turn their campuses into target practice. But at the Palmetto Manatee School in Florida, they are taking defending their students seriously. Harold Verdecia, 39, was an infantryman in the U.S. Army, completing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been shot … Read more

NH Democrats Stop Business Tax Cuts – Pass Tax Hikes Instead

February 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Ways and Means Chair Susan Almy led the charge to end prosperity in New Hampshire. The Granite State has experienced historical growth in employment and its labor force after a series of business tax cuts were implemented. Democrats disagree on that point not that it matters. They need to raise taxes to pay for their spending.

NH Democrats ‘Play Their Hand’ on Keno-garten – Taxpayers Will Be Hit Hardest

February 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Full-day kindergarten is optional. Districts don’t have to adopt it (yet). Keno to pay for full-day kindergarten is also optional. Towns don’t have to embrace it (yet). As Tom notes here Keno has failed to deliver adequate funding for full-day kindergarten. But Democrats knew that (Republicans fell for it) and now the Left is trying to change the game.

Convicted NH ‘Assault Rep’ Pushes Failed California Gun Control Bill… AGAIN

February 13, 2019 Kimberly Morin

Today, the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee in the New Hampshire House of Representatives will hear testimony on a gun control bill that has been presented by Democrats but written by a gun control organization from California. For some reason, Representative Katherine Rogers (who also pushes New York-style gun control via billionaire Michael Bloomberg and pleaded guilty to assaulting … Read more

When Asked College Students Attribute Almost All of Hillary’s “Scandals” to Trump

February 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Higher learning? Not so much. Campus Reform took to the “streets” to test some of the nations matriculators. Students were read a statement off a card and asked to whom who it referred. Who does it sound like would have said or done that? Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? How well informed were these future leaders … Read more

Education Tax Credit Repeal Hearing Continued to March 5

February 12, 2019 Ellen Kolb

From School Choice NH: the hearing on HB 632, repeal of the Education Tax Credit (ETC) program, will resume on Tuesday, March 5 at 10 a.m. in room 202 of the Legislative Office Building.

NH Medical Society Pushes for Gun Control Using Outrageously False Statistics

February 12, 2019 Kimberly Morin

On Sunday, Seacoastonline posted an opinion letter by a Doctor Leonard Korn, “immediate past president of the New Hampshire Medical Society (NHMS).” In it, Korn and NHMS push for support of the draconian gun control legislation that Democrats are trying to pass in the legislature. Several bills that will be heard tomorrow, including a background … Read more