One of the major themes of the New Hampshire Democrats is that the current New Hampshire Republican majority is not focusing enough on the budget and the economy, and spending too much time on other issues. But this is an understandable position for leftists.
When the Democrats ran the entire state for four years, every session (almost every week) was about the budget, and how they had to raise more revenue. The reason for that is that their estimates were always so distant from reality, and their over spending so profligate, that they could not help but be obsessed, at every opportunity, with trying to fix a mess of their own making. The budget (and the economy)–how they might milk more taxes and fees out of the taxpayers or regulate and tax local businesses–was always on the agenda, often into the small hours of the morning of the day after the day they were supposed to have this all worked out by law. So Democrat stewardship of the budget and the economy was one long, constant, cluster-***k. (With what time they could spend ducking their budget woes wasted on trying to stomp out free speech, socializing medicine, scaring off more business, and a long laundry list of other nonsense too long to regurgitate here.)
The Republican majority, on the other hand, doing what you do at the grown-up table, already took care of all that business in the first session. Budget, estimates, revenues, done. No last minute nonsense, no late night sessions. No passing bills without hearings or making up taxes or fees they would later have to rescind–whose revenue they would then also have to “find” again and again… and no Rube Goldbergian accounting tricks, or counting money from this year for that year, or adding in the potential sale of things like land that you will never actually sell. None of that.
The Democrats hate the Republicans for that.
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