Wealth redistribution Archives

RHODES: Wealth Transfer in Maine

January 11, 2026 Matthew Rhodes

While righteous indignation is spreading over the so-called Somali affair—real or imagined—the question Americans should be asking is not who offended whom, who received money, or which group violated some moral expectation, but what structural architecture of the Administrative State makes situations like this inevitable in the first place and why Americans are conditioned to … Read more

“Progressive Folks in Blue States…are …Tenacious Supporters of Systemic Racism”?

August 11, 2020 Skip

Gosh, what an eye-opener, given that all the folks that are virtue-yelling at the rest of us are Fine Upstanding People of the Progressive Nature. They are the ones that are wailing about their White Guilt and yet here they are opposing a school integration program with poor kids of color.

More Evidence That Their Machinations Have Nothing to do with ‘Saving the Planet’

August 7, 2022November 16, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We don’t just make fun of climate cultists. Nor do we limit ourselves to contradicting their ‘science.’ We share science that solves the problems they claim need solving, which they ignore. Proof that this nonsense has nothing to do with man’s impact on our weather and everything to do with socialism.

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?

The NH Tobacco Tax Increase is Not About Youth Smoking or Public Health…it is a Transfer of Wealth

September 26, 2018April 10, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Take some money and give it them

The Tobacco tax war is underway again, this time in the New Hampshire State Senate, as both sides debate the House passed 0.20 cent per pack tax hike before the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Supporters of the tax point to potential health benefits and a reduction in youth smoking. The Union Leader Article I draw this from is actually titled “Cigarette Tax Increase Seen as Deterrent to Youth Smoking,” but we already know that to be false.

According to the American Lung Associations own publications there has been absolutely no change in the middle-school smoking rate in New Hampshire since at least 2006, despite Democrats more than doubling the cigarette tax, taking it from 0.80/pack to 1.78/pack (plus a 65% wholesale price increase passed by Democrats in 2010).

The Lung Association’s reports for New Hampshire High School age smokers document the rate in 2006 at 20.5% (rising and falling) to settle in at 20.8% for 2010.

We also know that New Hampshire is consistently one of the healthiest states in the nation.