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"Beer Caucus Founders at the 2019 Inaugural Ball. (l-r) Tim Lang, Mike Moffett, Howard Pearl, and Reed Panasiti."

A Tale of Two New Hampshires

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” (“A Tale of Two Cities”). Charles Dickens’ words may aptly be applied to 2020 New Hampshire vs. 2010 New Hampshire—an age of wisdom vs. and age of foolishness re: state fiscal …

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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. …

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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 …

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It isn’t often that Government gets rid of a tax – Celebrate it!

Especially when it is on something we use everyday (reformatted, emphasis mine): Consumption tax axed With the new year came a little-noticed state tax repeal. It’s the electricity consumption tax, a charge on everyone’s electricity bill created back in 1978 after construction started on the Seabrook nuclear power plant…Lawmakers decided to make this tax go away …

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Deficit – What Deficit?

The party that is bringing civility ( see here, here, here, here, here, here (sigh) here, here, a big one right here,…) ran on the idea that the New Hampshire Republican House and Senate was leaving New Hampshire with a deficit, a presumption only “slightly” less dishonest than the notion that Democrats are civil, or half as …

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