Mike Hoefer is skipping his Lunch for Lynch and he’s asking the folks at Boo Hoo Hampshire to do the same. He figures, rather than spend $9.68 at Panera bread he’s donating that money to Lynch for Governor to help fight back against the attacks by NOM. Well Mike, I have a few thoughts. Panera … Read more
The economic slowdown has reduced electricity consumption and with it, the cost of carbon credits, but that is temporarily keeping the current Lynch broad-based energy tax low.
It should be common knowledge that if we get rid of John Lynch and enough democrats that we can also free New Hampshire from the retarded fad known as RGGI. And the green energy initiatives that are all based on flawed science and an economic model that costs us jobs and business growth.
The Granite State Fair Tax folks are back trolling for a broad based tax on the idea that it is more fair? Fair to whom? That’s always the question but it never tries to address why we need a tax, and why we need to control how much of it the government can collect, or how easily they can grow it.
And back in May of 2010 I once again tried to make the case for property taxes as better way to control the flow of revenue into the government. It may or may not be my most persuasive but it is my most recent.
May 25 2010 ‘Why Property Taxes’
I have argued at great length on why relying primarily on local property taxes is the best mechanism for keeping government small. But no matter how often I bring it up someone always tries to make the point that it’s not fair. Why should the people who actually own the physical land in the state have to bear the burden of the costs associated with the governance of that land and the people who live on it? (That’s not exactly how they say it, I’m just translating it into common sense.)
I happen to think that question answers itself, and as I’ve stated before should act as a necessary mechanism for filtering out unnecessary spending and over aggressive revenue seeking by busy bodies at every level of government. Yet I am still confronted with the issue of New Hampshire’s unfair property tax burden–to which I now respond, what burden?
A balanced budget is a technical term for making the numbers add up. The amount you say you have to spend simply matches what you claim to have spent. So if you borrowed some millions that you would later have to pay back, and you found a few hundred million more on the sidewalk (maybe in Washington DC), if it added up far enough to cover how much you spent, you could claim to have a balanced budget.
The difference is that being at zero, and owing tens of millions you never had is not balanced. Add to that the reality that you now have a larger bill to pay every year but can’t expect to just find a few hundred million laying around every year, and you have what is called a structural deficit. Your political lifestyle vastly exceeds your expected revenue. Call it a state wide mortgage that exceeds our ability to pay it by hundreds of millions annually.
This is called incompetent. It is also the Lynch budget. And even though an account or two may have pulled in more revenue than expected, there is still a massive debt due in the next budget, created by democrats, and signed off on by John Lynch, with no money to pay for it..
Why else proceed in contradiction to the supreme court, on the politically poisonous path of robbing $110 million in private property unless you really need that 110 million to start stuffing the sink hole of a massive structural deficit. And even if you get this one time money, where’s the line of suckers you plan to screw after you are done with them?
If we had a real surplus they wouldn’t need to rob the JUA fund. They would drop the idea of selling off 60 million in state land. In fact, they’d stop all the hand-wringing about the budget. They have not. The deficit is real. And the democrats are to blame, and John Lynch and it is one more reason why John Lynch has been the governor for too long.
So John Lynch didn’t create a better job situation, he simply scared off enough people to make the absence of almost 11,000 jobs look like an improvement. 5.8% is better than 6.6% right? Tell that to the 11,000 people who lost their jobs or the thousands more who gave up on John Lynch’s New Hampshire.
Governor Lynch and the left-o-crats are guilty of false advertising. He (and they) have framed John Lynch as a man who is good for the state, and a shining example of how best to ride out a recession. To support this claim they point to the states better than average unemployment rate, which while lower … Read more
There’s no point in denying it. If you are a republican for Lynch, you might as well just call yourself the ‘Republicans Against Parental Rights.’ It’s a hallmark of the Lynch legacy and one which cannot be properly corrected for as long as he sits in the Governor’s chair. By supporting him you are stating … Read more
Skip made a good point (here). That one of the reasons the baby killing, parent denying, taxing, spending, fund robbing, fibber John Lynch even has a shot at a "unprecedented fourth term" as governor, is because republicans vote for him.
He’s not a moderate. He’s just a quiet liberal, you know the type. Well, no you don’t. If you did, you would not vote for him.
While the pillory might be a bit excessive, knowledge is a powerful thing. And so is history. Back in 2008 Ed Naile was kind enough to publish the list for the ‘Republicans for John Lynch Steering committee.’
May we find them and steer them back to the right, or right out of the Republican party.
List on the jump. (Along with the town of residence at the time the list was compiled.)
Blogging can be a weird hobby. You never know when something you’ve planted will grow and bear fruit. But back on May 28th of 2010 I planted this seed. It was about Mr. Lynch going to the Political OutGiving conference. In the intervening months I planted a few more, here, and here, and here. There … Read more
It’s not what you know it’s who you know. And Gary Hirschberg, CEO of Stonyfield Yogurt, knows democrats. So maybe that’s why Stonyfield Yogurt has received a $100,000.00 dollar job training grant from the state for 678 Stonyfield employees, complete with a visit from governor Lynch? And while Hirschberg says Stonyfield is matching the grant … Read more
Courtesy of haystack over at RedState (Dave Poff, who lives in New Hampshire now by the way) we get word of the particulars on the passage of a funding bill in which was stuffed a union hand out disguised as a job creator along with federal money for Medicaid payments.
Beginning in April 2010 the New Hampshire employment picture, the reported percentage at least, started to look a whole lot better. Having reached a high of 7.1% in February 2010, April’s 6.7% was a promising sign, a cool breeze on a hot day.
Things continued to look better through May and the preliminary June numbers are now reporting down to an even more palatable 5.9%.
If these numbers hold it would be the fourth consecutive month of improved reporting. But is it really a sign of improved employment?
Can we pop the champagne and predict even rosier employment numbers in the months to come?
Probably not.
Landigren rolled out the surplus meme again in last Sunday’s Telegraph. Trust me it’s intentional. Lynch just bought more government durring a recession, and then mortgaged the state some more but still could not claim fiscal parity. So he ran begging to his sugar daddy in the federal government for another hit, you know–just to … Read more
You might have missed this. The Governor just vetoed HB 53. HB 53 was a bill proposed by Kimberly Casey (D-Rock 11) and Jim Garrity (D-Rock 6). Both of them should be run out of the state for even proposing it. In short, it would alter 91-A (Right to know law) by redefining what a public body … Read more
How many times have you heard people say, "Well the state can’t print its own money?" Well J-Lynch and the democrats have found a suitable equivalent; just pretend it’s there anyway and call it even. But it’s not enough to just pretend you balanced the budget, you have to follow it up with a cover story and … Read more
Lacking any tangible bullet points with which to elevate their governor the New Hampshire democrat party would like you to believe that John Lynch can take credit for New Hampshire’s better than average unemployment situation. If this is true then John Lynch is responsible for the existence of Mount Washington as well because it, like the base factors that drive unemployment in New Hampshire, predate him.
New Hampshire was designed for low unemployment long before governor Lynch came along. The mechanism is one that is both relatively unique and has very little bearing on the length or breadth of federally mandated hand outs designed as assistance for those still looking aimlessly for any of the 8 million jobs that the Obama administration admits it has permanently destroyed. Put simply, we do not pay people in New Hampshire enough to survive at the same lifestyle level to which they may have become accustomed while working. When prolonged unemployment compromises your comfort, you are more inclined to find work almost anywhere work can be found.
So more New Hampshire people are looking for work, more of them are finding it, and John Lynch had nothing to do with that— which should not to be confused with how Mr. Lynch did impact employment.
William F. Klessons has stretched credibility to the breaking point. Who is Klessons you ask? He is Salem’s self-styled print equivalent of Keith Olbermann. A Kool-Aid stained liberal apologist and basher of all things to the right of Mussolini in the pages of the Salem Patriot, and the Observer.
Klessons came to my attention when someone sent me a copy of his most recent piece of fiction. In it he proclaims the greatness of Governor Lynch. While everyone is entitled to their opinion Klessons justifies this because of some budget surplus he has imagined, and then lauds the little governor for his business acumen as the catalyst for all the good in the Granite State. Not to knock you off your dung wagon Bill but having no state or income tax is why we are better off than most states and Lynch and the democrats did their best to screw the state up despite that.
John Lynch has a lot in common with governor Chet Culver of Ohio. Chet said he would protect marriage as between a man and a woman and then Chet got all squishy. Then he stood by and let the courts define marriage for him. Want to know some other interesting coincidences? Chet was receiving money from … Read more
It should be common knowledge that Governor Lynch attended a secret gay-donor confab in Chicago back in May. But no one was supposed to know. I got wind of it when I received an article from the Washington Blade questioning the secrecy. (A repost of that blog can be found here) Only two months later, it is finally showing up locally at the Keene Sentinel.
Of course the Sentinel seemed more concerned with the group and our governor’s evolution on the issue; his shift from what they call ambivalence to outward embrace of gay marriage. But why not report this meaningful embrace back in May when it happened? It seems like he could have used a lift after that beating he took from the National Organization for Marriage. Was it too secret an embrace? So secret that the no one wanted it known? Was Governor Lynch afraid to come out of the gay donor closet?
He was, and for good reason.