The default response by the Liberty-deniers on the left to the suggestion that we need to cut taxes is that education and public safety will be hurt by any effort to return the peoples money to the people.  It is chapter and verse for liberals to pry at the soft edges of the electorate with words of warning about how Republican efforts to shrink government will hurt their children, the elderly, or the disadvantaged.  And if you happen to disagree, they treat you like idiots for failing to be as smart as they think they are.  Just look at Chairman Buckley’s response to the public beating taken by Jeff Goley yesterday.

“While Democrats are focused on moving New Hampshire forward, Republicans are pursuing a reckless, radical right-wing agenda and are not offering any solutions to the significant challenges facing our state or country.”

Ray left some words out.  Liberals are moving “reckless spending” forward, and avoiding” the significant challenge” of running a government without fiscally raping the people in it.

How come democrats have no ‘solutions’ that answer the challenge of letting people in this state keep more of the money they earned when they need it most, or allows them to invest more of it in their local businesses without left wing wind bags making them feel guilty about it?   Why can’t they keep that money in their town where they can vote and contribute to how it works for their own community?

Why? They don’t want you to have control of your own money because then you have control of your government.   So he’ll whine and cry and make up stories to scare you into parting with it.

The whining is abundant, shrill, and constant.  And they will be rolling out more of the canards as we approach November.  But facts are troubling things and here’s one.  The liberals in Concord increased spending by 23%, (in a recession with historic job loss) but they did not increase education and public safety spending by 23%.  It is therefore not only possible, but probable, for a pro-taxpayer majority to roll back spending at the state level without harpooning the big white liberal whale of education or public safety.  And if they can roll it back, they won’t need more revenue to pay for it.

Having said that, I am not suggesting that those areas (education and public safety) will not need cuts as well.  Over-administration from top to bottom in every aspect of government wastes millions.  Budget writers are also spenders, and they know that any unspent dollars in one year, could result in some bureaucrat or legislator looking to cut their budget by at least that much next year.  So the default setting for the spenders of public dollars is to spend them all, and then see if they can get more every year.   But if pressed, every one of them could easily cut back and return that money to the people who earned it, by simply reducing the scope of government waste.

Grow government first Liberals have no desire to do this.  

So if the people of New Hampshire believe that their state has done them an injustice they will need to replace the government they have with one that will find the cuts, and pull back the role of government at the state level, (kicking and screaming if necessary) returning the money and the power that goes with it back to towns and cities, and the people in them, where it rightly belongs.

That’s what the right wingers want for New Hamshire.  Lower taxes.  More local control.  More power in your hands, less in theirs.