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Paris Accord Leads to Paris Discord As Mobs Protest Fuel Taxes

November 23, 2018November 22, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I’m not going to pretend that I get the nuance of the politics in France. But President Macron has instituted some new fuel taxes to save the planet, and a growing movement has risen to protest those taxes. This is, of course, France. I can recall any number of times in my life when I’ve … Read more

Are New Hampshire Democrats Backing Away From Promised Tax Hikes?

November 19, 2018 Steve MacDonald

All year long New Hampshire Democrats have been whining about how cutting New Hampshire’s business taxes was a hand out to the rich. Corporate bailouts. The standard socialist-Democrat class warfare rhetoric. Back in the real world, these tax cuts have produced record job growth, wage growth, and record labor force participation. Regular folk are working and earning … Read more

It isn’t just about the marijuana tax revenue Democrats desire…

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 Skip

As Steve posted, the reason why the Democrats decided to go all out on legalizing marijuana was not that they treasure Liberty (they don’t) but that they want YOUR money in their Treasury. It’s one of the reasons I’m against legalization and against casinos here in NH: both do nothing more than act as an expensive facade for bigger, more expensive government leading to more boondoggles and intrusiveness.

But the other reason? They’re beaming that they’ll achieve yet another Democrat Agenda item at the same! Question E…

Trump Tax Cuts Produce Record Business Tax Revenue in October – Personal Tax Revenues Down 3 Billion

November 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Those evil tax cuts for businesses we all heard so much about just set a record for taxes received from businesses. In October, the first month of the new fiscal year, of $252,692,000,000. That’s more than $11.4 billion above revenue for October of last year, which was the previous record tax revenue for an October. … Read more

Quick Thought on Steve’s post: One of Life’s Certainties – New Hampshire Democrats Raise Taxes

November 15, 2018 Skip

Here. It’s what Democrats do. Let me remind you of what they did before: they created an $800 million hole in the NH State budget. They spent everything they could – and then more. You see, Democrats are:

They believe in Government directed EVERYTHING – every aspect of our lives. That takes a lot of your money to allow them to do that
While they are always screaming about separation of Church and State, they absolutely conflate the ideas of Government and Charity.

Why the second? they too lazy to get off their Collective butts to do the hard work of creating charities and then canvassing the public at large to fund them. Government means Ruling and Crowding out private charity. When they talk about Public / Private partnerships, you can always know who is in charge and who is about to be embraced and then absorbed (if not de jure, then de facto). Government IS Charity and Charity means Government because ONLY from Government can good things flow, according to their actions. And once again, while they’re out putting their sense of a Collective dystopia Utopia in place, they’ll be setting the stage, once again, for broadbased taxes. Which means that…

One of Life’s Certainties – New Hampshire Democrats Raise Taxes

November 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

As Government gets bigger and more inefficient (corrupt), it needs to feed. The ‘food’ is your hard earned dollars, and the delivery method is taxation (fees, charges, etc.). Anyone who recalls the last time Democrats “ran things” around here they deliberately overestimated revenues and then spent them to grow government. When the estimates fell short, … Read more

On the Topic of “Free Money” – A Refresher Course

November 12, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Given the “complexion” of our incoming New Hampshire legislature, we should take a moment to revisit a phrase you’ll be hearing a lot more around the Granite State. “Free money.” ‘Free money’ is taxes for which (the individual using the term) did not have to “vote” to collect them. Someone else, further away and more difficult … Read more

Brookstone Bankruptcy a Done Deal – Still not New Hampshire’s Fault

November 10, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Lost in the election noise was a report from NHBR last week that Brookstone’s bankruptcy was “official.” The chain, headquartered in Merrimack, New Hampshire, had fallen on hard times, attracting our attention when a reader tried to argue that the Granite State’s tax system was to blame for companies like Brookstone going out of business. … Read more

Supporters of Dems Running to Raise Taxes in Denial When We Report Dems Voted to Raise Taxes

March 28, 2019November 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

We boosted our video showing the years and bill numbers of Democrat votes from 2011 to 2018 to raise taxes in New Hampshire. The results of that boost have been amusing. We have ‘Democrats,’ I assume, claiming this expression is some sort of fraud. That we made it up. We didn’t. The bill numbers and … Read more

Protect New Hampshire’s Booming Economy – Vote Republican on Tue. Nov. 6th

November 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

In case you forgot to share this great news with friends and neighbors. As of July, the average hourly wage for private employment in New Hampshire was $26.22, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. New Hampshire’s real per capita personal income is up more than $4,000 since … Read more

97% of NH Democrats Voted to Make You Pay for Other People’s Sex Change Surgery

November 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

97% of NH Democrats Voted to Make You Pay for Other People’s Sex Change Surgery. GrokTV

New Hampshire Democrats are Coming For Your Paycheck But You Can Stop Them

November 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

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It all Comes Down to Trust, and Democrats Don’t Trust You

October 25, 2018October 23, 2018 Steve MacDonald

If you visit a New Hampshire Democrat congressional delegation members government webpage, you’ll find an endless stream of statements about how they helped direct money to this or that. Tens of thousands for this, hundreds of thousands for that, sometimes even millions. Look at how hard I am working for “my” constituents. The same people … Read more

Myths Regarding Education Funding

January 7, 2025October 22, 2018 Op-Ed

Hint: It Is Not About the Children or Their Academic Outcomes All too often, especially in election years, we hear candidates make promises they cannot – or will not – keep. They claim they can lower property taxes without proposing spending cuts or indicating where the dollars would come from to replace the reduced funding … Read more

Data Point – who pays MORE than their “fair” share?

October 17, 2018October 17, 2018 Skip

That would be the 50% of Americans who pay the 97% of the income tax taken by the Federal Government:

Bloomberg looked into the 2016 individual returns data in detail for some additional insights illustrated in the charts below:

The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of total individual income taxes.

That’s just the Feds. Now crank in all of the income taxes taken in by

Are Legislators in Concord Like Jesus?

October 15, 2018October 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

School Administrative Unit (SAU) 16 consists of Brentwood, Exeter, East Kingston, Kensington, Newfields, and Stratham, New Hampshire. Using the SAU stationary they recently sent out a letter urging recipients to attend a meeting “in an attempt to increase dialog and share information.” About what? This reads like Democrat talking points. It mirrors issues they are … Read more

Stop the Presses: “Free College” May Not be The Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars

October 4, 2018October 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I did not know that the Island of Rhode has a Free College program called Rhode Island Promise. It is available through the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI). You need to be a Rhode Island Resident, a high school graduate (includes homeschoolers), and under the age of 19.

But according to the CCRI Faculty Association President Steve Murray, “I wouldn’t call RI Promise a success or a good use of the taxpayer’s money.”

98% Of NH Democrats Voted for an Income Tax…

September 28, 2018September 27, 2018 Steve MacDonald

If you aren’t planning to vote in November I hope you like higher taxes. From 2011 to 2018 98% of New Hampshire Democrats voted for an income tax (2012 CACR13, 2018 HB628). 97% of Democrats voted for higher gas taxes (2013 HB617, 2014 SB367, 2011 SB78, 2015 HB591). Democrats voted for higher business taxes and lots of other taxes.

But there’s a way to stop your taxes from going up.

There is More than One Price to Pay for Letting Democrats back into Power

September 29, 2018September 24, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Democrats have made no secret of their plans to raise taxes. Left-wing leaders at both the Federal and State level are running on erasing tax reform. Here in New Hampshire, candidates for Governor and State Senator as well as other state elected offices are looking to roll back tax cuts on job creators even though the state has experienced record high employment and labor force participation.

All at a time when the evidence suggests that people with the most mobility are migrating to states with lower tax burdens.

Six Things Other Governments Provide for which Americans Still Have to Pay…

September 24, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I was just minding my own business when this headline scrolled its way before my eyes. “6 things other governments provide that Americans still have to pay for.”

I think it should read “Six things other governments provide for which Americans still have to pay,” but I can write in cursive and also believe that there are thousands of buying decisions laundered through government that every-day Americans are more qualified to make, including the six things in this MSN article.