Tag: fairness

NH Dem Praises Repub AG for lobbying for Transgender Sports DOK

Say NO to the Woke NH DOJ – Keep Girls Sports for Real Girls

June 23, 2024 Skip

A Petition to Protect Fairness and Dignity for Women and Girls To the legislature of New Hampshire; New Hampshire is a centrist state. Yet, on gender issues, our state Department of Justice has the views of the DOJ of California. For years, the New Hampshire DOJ has vigorously advocated for the forced inclusion of … Read more

New! Skip’s Sauntering Snippets Podcast #2 – It’s Almost Tax Day So Why Doesn’t Everyone Have to Shell Out?

April 18, 2022 Skip

Tax Day is normally April 15th and I have a question: why doesn’t everyone have to put in their fair share? EVERYONE should be a contributor and not divide the country into Makers and Takers.

What Was Hunter Biden Doing in China?

December 15, 2020

What Was Hunter Biden Doing in China? Heck, I don’t know the answer to the question. Given he is under investigation for his actions perhaps we will know someday. Hunter is Joe Biden’s son. Joe took Hunter to China on the plane with him.

Refuse to Certify … Napoleon was Right

November 18, 2020

We must refuse to certify this election until we can be sure our process is materially free from fraud. Americans are particularly sensitive to fairness. Fairness is a pretty fluid standard. We all know it when we see it. But getting people to agree on a definition is very difficult.

California or Bust … and Go Broke

August 29, 2020August 29, 2020

California or Bust … and Go Broke. The Okies had it pretty much right. Today in the Golden State, 341,000 state and local government employees earn more than $100,000 in salary or pension payments. The statistics in this post come from OpenTheBooks.com and their article in RealClear Politics. Don’t worry; the HEROES Act will bail … Read more

The Principles of Taxation

May 30, 2020May 29, 2020

What are the principles of taxation we should follow? It’s our system we should have a voice, right? Come let us reason together. An appropriate tax system is one raising revenue only the core functions of government require. The fundamental principles of our neutral and effective tax system are: Simplicity: The tax code should be … Read more

The Founders Are Rolling in their Graves

January 28, 2020

The founders are rolling in their graves. Adam Schiff says the eyes of the founders are on the impeachment proceedings. Conservatives know the heart of the constitution governs the impeachment proceedings. The Democrats want you to accept that courts have no role in impeachments.

California Is Now Pushing to Control the Federal Debt and Your Taxes

January 18, 2020

California is now pushing to control the federal debt and your taxes. Don’t believe it? Read on McDuff. California, the governor and the legislature, are working on a proposal to extend free health care to illegal immigrant senior citizens.

Impeachment Response

December 21, 2019December 20, 2019

Our elected representatives, Shaheen, Kuster, and Pappas behave as they do for three reasons. They love power. They like the sound of their own voices. And the GOP lets them get away with it.

Congressman Chris Pappas, What Have You Done?

October 12, 2019

Most of us back home have come to see the federal government as dysfunctional. More than a few of us have used the word abusive in talking about the government? Congress is utterly unable to balance the budget. In fact, we have not actually had a budget for 23 years. And Chris Pappas is part of that failure.

The Fair Shares Act

January 3, 2020September 6, 2019 Ian Underwood

We frequently hear about how each of us should pay or receive ‘our fair share’ of taxes. Whether that’s the state Department of Labor claiming to ‘ensure the NH businesses pay their fair share’, or the federal Census Bureau arguing that it ‘helps each community get its fair share’ of tax funds, or some other example of lobbying of the government, by the government, for the government, we see this phrase again and again.

But I think it’s time to add an ‘s’ to it, and start talking about ‘our fair shares’ instead of ‘our fair share’.

Idiocrats

August 19, 2019 Ian Underwood

In the movie Idiocracy, people in the future experience massive crop failures. Why? Because the government has convinced farmers that ‘electrolytes are what plants crave’, so farmers start watering their fields with the sports drink Brawndo (which is basically Gatorade).

I couldn’t help thinking of this the other day when someone forwarded me the latest email blast from Comrade Volinsky, who is running something called the School Funding Fairness Project.

Prager U: New York Students want Free College For All

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 Skip

Embarrassing questions with ridiculous answers – until almost the very last student being question: That last student? Yeah, college math – not so much. Even below “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez standard” – that MUST take a lot of college courses to reach that level. (H/T: The Blaze)

From One Socialist to Another

April 2, 2019

The issue Even after the release of the Mueller report’s findings, 84% of Democrats remain unpersuaded. So why investigate something if we are not going to accept the results of the investigation? Why spend tens of millions of dollars, and waste two years of 60 people’s lives if we are not going to accept the … Read more

I’ll give up the Death Penalty for the convicted if you Democrats give up the death penalty for innocent babies

March 7, 2019 Skip

HB455 – “This bill changes the penalty for capital murder to life imprisonment without the possibility for parole.” The Democrats have been pushing for this for years. I guess they believe that convicted murderers (pretty much the only crime that would receive a death penalty but only for a very few situations – like shooting a … Read more

Daddy, What are taxes for?

February 4, 2019

Function: The proper function of taxation is to raise money for core functions of government. It is not the function of taxes to direct the behavior of citizens. Closing the budget gaps created by overspending too is a misuse of taxation. This is true regardless of the size or level of government. Taxation always imposes … Read more

Educational Funding – You’re all concentrating on the wrong thing (Part 4)

January 21, 2019 Skip

At the Northwood Community Center, Ian Underwood gave a presentation on educational funding that basically told the audience that we were thinking about the wrong thing. Much of the debate in NH (and elsewhere) always has money at the forefront – instead, we ought to be mindful of student achievement first and then what is … Read more

Educational Funding – You’re all concentrating on the wrong thing (Part 3)

January 16, 2019 Skip

As I said in the past, Ian makes my head ache. How? By making me think from and in different directions. Now, normally people hate having headaches but this is of a different kind – and trust me, it is good for you to think outside one’s normal patters. And that’s again, what Ian started … Read more

Education Funding? You’re all concentrating on the wrong thing (Parts 1 & 2)

January 15, 2019 Skip

“Taxpayers should be funding public benefits and not private enrichment. At the Northwood Community Center, Ian Underwood gave a presentation on educational funding that basically told the audience that we were thinking about the wrong thing. Much of the debate in NH (and elsewhere) always has money at the forefront – instead, we ought to … Read more

And this is a MASSIVELY Stupid (yes, with a capital “S”) idea, Bruce Breton

December 26, 2018 Skip

Well, it would put one thing to rest – New Hampshire as the First in The Nation (“FITN”) Primary State. Second, as I have said for years, the FITN primary really distorts the political “marketplace” as the locals start falling all agog over themselves with all of the Bright and Shiny Objects waltzing into NY. … Read more