Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Granite State Fair Tax Coalition claims to be a non-partisan, non-profit group whose mission is to convince the people of New Hampshire that we need a broad based income tax.  What that works out to is using percentages and … Continue reading →

 Pardon the short absence.  I’ve been very busy.  But I’ll be back to the blogging soon.

Why can’t democrats trust their own constituents to do the right thing?  Their first response to every problem is to institutionalize it with more government, typically as far up the legislative food chain as possible.  That means as far away … Continue reading →

My teenage son came up to me and said, I don’t want to have to say this but I’ll need to increase the amount of money you have to pay me because it would be irresponsible of me to let … Continue reading →

Steve Vaillancourt is a prodigious source of State House commentary and quick to put digital pen to virtual paper to keep us informed of events in Concord.  This invaluable service has today provided us with his remarks on yesterdays veto-palloza; … Continue reading →

The good news is that the Obama administration is in full defensive mode on Project Gunwalker and people with brighter minds, more free time, and a much broader reach than I are making the same connections I posed back on … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday New Hampshire. June 21 1788. #NH,

Actually you can’t leave.  One of the little known “irregularities” of union membership is that you can’t take it with you. If you leave one region of the country to work in another, (or one local for another) even in … Continue reading →

The US Senate has overwhelmingly voted to end billions in ethanol subsidies.  And even though the bill has no hope of becoming law–Obama will not sign it–corn prices collapsed on the news. This is instructive for two reasons.  First a … Continue reading →

The Pigford settlement, a fiscal resolution for claims of discrimination against black farmers, is under suspicion of massive fraud.  Fraud that is being funded by taxpayers in excess of a billion dollars thanks to the lame duck democrat congress that … Continue reading →