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Senate Republicans oppose budget with tax increases and spending deficit

by The New Hampshire Senate  | Senate Republicans oppose budget with tax increases and spending deficit Concord, NH – Today, the New Hampshire Senate passed HB 1-A and HB 2-FN-A-L, the state budget and trailer bill. Senate Republican Leader Chuck Morse (R-Salem), Senator Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro), Senator John Reagan (R-Deerfield) and Senator Bob Giuda (R-Warren) … Read more

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Budget Season in New Hampshire

Figures lie and liars figure. The New Hampshire State Senate has passed a 2 year $13 billion state budget. The last state budget was $11 billion. Now maybe you are getting 9% per year raises… but most of us are not. Those living on fixed incomes most certainly are not. New Hampshire is one of … Read more

Announcement: Winnipesaukee Republicans to hold a Town Hall

State Budget Town Hall With Legislators Planned for June 10 in Wolfeboro On Monday June 10, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in Wolfeboro’s Great Hall, there will be a public forum with locally elected State legislators, addressing the New Hampshire State Budget. The forum will be moderated by the Honorable Steve Schmidt of Wolfeboro, who … Read more

Op-Ed: Our Turn: In Franklin, school board proposal is a budget buster

By Kathy Lauer-Rago, Paul Trudel, and George J. Dzjuna Fellow taxpayers and citizens of Franklin: Once again, budget season is upon us in the city of Franklin. We, the members of the city’s finance committee, wanted you to be well informed on where our budget stands this year. The school board recently presented the city … Read more

What have you got in your wallet?

Time for a progress review We are living with Democrat majorities here in New Hampshire’s House, Senate and Executive Council as well as in the House of Representatives in the District of Columbia. Let’s take this opportunity to examine what the people have got to show for the most recent election. Here in New Hampshire … Read more

Family Medical Leave Insurance Boondoggle

More state mandated insurance The NH’s Democrat legislature is going to pass a bill establishing a system of paid family and medical leave insurance. Having heard more than a few people ask why we need more state mandated insurance it seemed appropriate that as an informed electorate we should understand that need. It must be … Read more

Red Ink Rules

The federal government drools when it come to budgeting The federal deficit was $693 billion for the first half of fiscal year 2019. That is $94 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last year. By anybody’s numbers the deficit and our accumulated debt are too large. Quite simply our federal government … Read more

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So kids, what did we learn from today’s House Session (4/11)?

Well, today was Budget Day in the House, and we learned how the House Democrat Majority and their Finance Committee took a perfectly reasonable and fiscally responsible budget presented by the Governor and turned it into an absolutely irresponsible tax and spend trainwreck. We started off playing really nicely together and voting for HB-25-A which … Read more

House Pursues Reckless Spending

Fiscal restraint dies House leadership is trying to put the last nail in the coffin of the Budget Control Act of 2011. This is about the last vestige of fiscal restraint left in the District of Columbia. This week, the House is expected to vote on a plan to raise the law’s discretionary spending caps … Read more

The Myth That the Socialist Budget Provides “Property Tax Relief”

This: What a bunch of bull. First of all, absent a real statewide municipal spending cap -which is long overdue as “local control” has become a punch line- there is nothing stopping the municipality from treating the “revenue sharing” as “free money” and spending it on top of whatever they would have spent without the … Read more

Battle of the Budgets

Should government spending go up? Is it reasonable or sustainable to increase the biennial state budget by more than 13%. Is the economy growing that fast? Is the population growing that fast? If we add together the growth in population and economic growth are we growing that fast? The answer is Hell No. Legislature Vs. … Read more

AFP-NH Calls Out Irresponsible, Tax-Hike Filled House Budget

CONCORD, NH – Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today called out House Finance’s proposed budget (HB 1) and trailer bill (HB 2) for their massive tax hikes and spending increases. The bills would raise the business enterprise tax and business profits tax by over $93 million, create a $150 million per year capital gains tax, an … Read more

The New Hampshire GOP Has Hit Rock Bottom.

This: Hooksett is supposed to be a “Republican Town.” Yet Germano, who at best is a couple of baby-steps away from a full-bore communist, was elected to -of all things- the Budget Committee. And it’s not like Germano hides his extremism. He embraces it, celebrates it, puts it out there for the world to see. … Read more

NH Budget Plan

You can’t have too much taxation In the first 10 weeks of the 2019 legislative session, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed nearly $310 million in annual tax and fee increases. That is exclusive of the changes in subsidy levels for green energy which will significantly impact your electric bill. So how much of … Read more

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Why Does Merrimack Need $20,000.00 Per Student Per Year?

The proposed budget for the Merrimack School system is 77.6 million dollars. That’s the entire cost to run the district for one year. An endeavor that exists, at least in theory, with one purpose. Educate children. But not very many of them. Which begs the question? Why so much for so little?

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