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NH Budget Plan

March 16, 2019

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

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s NH House Session (3/14)?

March 15, 2019 Judy Aron

We learned that the Democrats (the majority party) are fine with expanding dental coverage for Medicaid recipients (HB692-FN) while our State’s veterans, both able body and disabled, go without such coverage. We learned that the Majority party is only interested in studying assisted suicide instead of enlarging the scope to include palliative and hospice alternatives … Read more

F-Corporations

March 13, 2019 Ian Underwood

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and now that the Democrats are casting (some might say flailing) around for ways to make society ‘more fair’, it might be the perfect time for someone to try to introduce the appropriate legislation.

New Hampshire Democrats Retain Oppressive Carbon Tax Bill in Committee

March 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Remember HB735, the New Hampshire Democrat’s carbon tax bill? It would suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state economy every year. Kill jobs. Hurt families. It’s not dead. It has been retained in committee. Which means it could come back to life without warning to kill our economy.

Personal Endorsement: Rick Notkin for Gilford Budget Committee

March 11, 2019 Skip

Consider this a personal endorsement of Rick Notkin for Gilford Budget Committee. I’ve known him for a couple of years now and he literally is a straight shooter AND will watch over how your tax monies are spent just as miserly as I do! Please, if you want someone that supports limited government, please give … Read more

If You Flee New York’s High Taxes You Will Get Audited and Lose

March 11, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Remember when Gov. Cuomo said that New York couldn’t pile any more taxes on the rich because they might leave. They are going anyway. It’s causing budgetary separation anxiety. To ease the pain, any high earner that decides to pack up and move out will get a state tax audit. Guaranteed.

SeacoastOnline Gives Away the Democrat Lie On Taxes and Education Funding

March 9, 2019March 9, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Despite a complete disconnect between funding and results, Democrats want more money for New Hampshire schools. Bigger budgets have produced no return on investment. None. But as I’ve noted previously, Democrats don’t care about learning. Public Schools are a vehicle for redistributing wealth to a favored constituency.

As NH Advances the Conscription of “Good Times” to Fill Its Tax Coffers

March 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

I don’t care if you want to smoke pot. I think the existing rules that allow small quantities and provide for medical access are great. But the latest leap to regulate and tax under the banner of legalization is not a great idea. It will create a whole world of new troubles we may find too late are worse than what we had.

Was the Democrats New Vaping Tax Supposed to Help Big Tobacco?

March 5, 2019March 4, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Would it surprise New Hampshire Democrats to discover that taxing vaping products is a bad idea? That the marketing by the FDA and CDC is disingenuous. Or, that vaping is lowering cancer rates and that their tax might benefit Big Tobacco?

The Big Lie

March 2, 2019 Norm Silber

For those too young to remember, the Big Lie is an expression for a propaganda technique coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. Well, times … Read more

So, what did we learn in Thursday’s New Hampshire House Session?

March 2, 2019 Op-Ed

by Representative Judy Aron So, what did we learn in Thursday’s House Session? We learned that the majority party, while supporting interpreters for the deaf and hard of hearing at the State House (HB488), are totally tone deaf to the successes and economic principles that made New Hampshire a great place to live. The Majority … Read more

Why the Press Isn’t Complaining About How Lousy NH’s Income Tax Refunds Are This Year

February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

There has been a rise in reports about how some folks may be disappointed in their Federal tax refunds this year. It’s a media collusion narrative. The goal is to get people to buy into the idea that those Trump Tax cuts weren’t that great. But if the government took less of your money what happens?

Vermont Legislature Wants Taxpayer Funded “Free” College Education

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It is the sign of a weak mind to immediately assume that a problem, real or imagined, is due to inadequate government funding. It is also the sign of a socialist or a Democrat. And since we’re talking about that state to the left of New Hampshire, this begins to make whatever passes for sense in the People’s Republic.

Property Rich Portsmouth Doesn’t Want to Pay Its “Fair Share”

February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Portsmouth is loaded with progressives. The mayor and town council are frequently invoked on our pages over the latest left-wing knee-jerk policy or some perceived outrage against humankind or the planet. Portsmouth is powered by Democrat rhetoric. So, are you surprised that property-rich Portsmouth doesn’t want to pay its fair share in statewide taxes?

How Ocasio-Cortez Would ‘Spend’ Amazon’s Tax Cut Now That They Aren’t Getting It

February 16, 2019February 16, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new “leader” of the Democrat party, has a plan. It involves that 3 billion in Tax cuts New York City promised Amazon. The problem with this plan is exposed succinctly by Don Trump Jr. “Will someone please explain to me how it is possible for NYC to SPEND a $3 Billion tax break on anything?”

NH Democrats Stop Business Tax Cuts – Pass Tax Hikes Instead

February 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Ways and Means Chair Susan Almy led the charge to end prosperity in New Hampshire. The Granite State has experienced historical growth in employment and its labor force after a series of business tax cuts were implemented. Democrats disagree on that point not that it matters. They need to raise taxes to pay for their spending.

Opposite Day – Cuomo Says New York Can’t Raise Taxes on the Rich Because They Might Leave

February 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Andrew Cuomo has a 2.3 Billion dollar problem called a deficit. But the Democrat governor says he won’t raise taxes on the rich. “That would be the worst thing to do. You would just expand the shortfall,” he said. “God forbid if the rich leave.” Strange words from a Democrat, so who does he tax? … Read more

Stop the insanity

February 7, 2019February 4, 2019 Ian Underwood

If there’s anything that we should have learned over the last half century, it’s that spending more money on schools does nothing to improve student achievement, and that there is no correlation between the amount spent and the results obtained.

And if there’s anything that we should have learned during the two decades since the Claremont decision, it’s that even making every district into a ‘rich district’ does nothing to improve student performance.

These results shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. We’ve been focusing all our attention on money, and very little on what we’re doing with the money. It’s almost as if we think that something will work better if we pay more for it, or if we take the money out of a different pocket.

Daddy, why do we have taxes?

February 4, 2019 Ian Underwood

Percy Blakeney recently made the argument that ‘the proper function of taxation is to raise money for core functions of government’.

The first problem with this is that it ignores the fact that there are lots of other ways in which money can be raised, apart from taxation: Principally user fees, but also penalties, sales of goods and services, donations, raffles, and so on.

So it might be more precise to say that ‘The proper use of taxation is to raise money for core functions of government only after all other avenues have been shown to be ineffectual’.

But there’s still a problem.

Taxes: Can we have too much of a good thing?

February 1, 2019

Progressive taxes: What is the definition of too much? Americans generally accept the concept of progressive tax rates. We do. That is a fact of life. But our tax rates must not be punitive or de-motivating. Allowing those things to occur causes damage to the social fabric. That is the problem with socialism. What Socialists … Read more