Hey, NH! Want A State Income Tax?

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

A great many residents of New Hampshire would tell you that their absolute favorite thing about living in the ‘Live Free or Die’ state is the absence of a state income tax. New Hampshire is one of only seven States that do not have an income tax. In addition to the thousands of dollars less per year that the NH government forcibly takes from its citizens, the absence of a state income tax represents the NH culture — a culture of personal liberty and limited government.

However, some authoritarian politicians want that to end. | Keep Reading at LibertyBlock.com

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NH House votes to boost RGGI fund for residential programs

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

The NH House not only rejected an attempt to gut New Hampshire’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, lawmakers actually voted to more than triple the amount of RGGI money going to residential energy-efficiency programs, with a special emphasis on low-income and municipal programs.

But they also voted, 173-171, to get control in the future over a much greater source of energy-efficiency funding: the system benefits charge. | Read more at NHBR

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2018 Bills Re: Homeschoolers

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

There are a handful of bills that impact homeschoolers this year. We are tracking some of them, but want the community to be aware of the others.

Front and center is House Bill 1263, a bill that would reinstate the annual year-end assessment reporting requirements for all home-educated students. |Keep Reading at School Choice for NH

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Mandatory diversity course not effective, prof discovers

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

After assessing the bias of students before and after the course—using prompts such as “a woman should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers” and “if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites”—Stacey found that the course hadn’t altered students’ attitudes towards race or gender. | Keep Reading at Campus Reform

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Gericke to take on D’Allesandro again for state senate seat

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

MANCHESTER — Republican Carla Gericke has announced that she will again challenge Democratic State Sen. Lou D’Allesandro for the District 20 Senate seat he’s held for 10 terms.

Gericke lost with 40 percent of the vote to D’Allesdandro’s 60 percent when the two faced off in 2016 in the district that includes Manchester Wards 3, 4, 10, 11 and Goffstown.

“As a libertarian-leaning Republican, I look forward to championing the rights of the individual,” said Gericke. *| Read more at the Union Leader

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School Choice for NH: Schedule for Week of January 8, 2018

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

Welcome to the start of the 2018 legislative session! The Senate and House Education Committees kick off with full schedules of public hearings. We are monitoring several bills and those will include our analysis and recommendations.  | Keep Reading at School Choice for NH

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House Declines to Refer Rep. Rogers to Legislative Admin Committee

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

The New Hampshire House on Tuesday rejected (on a 99-222 vote) a motion to refer Rep. Katherine Rogers (D-Concord) to the Legislative Administration Committee on the grounds of her recent guilty plea to an assault charge. Rogers admitted to assaulting Susan Olsen during a ballot recount in November 2016. | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com

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For Liberals Every Damn Thing in the World is About Trump

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

Liberals have been seized by a sort of dementia in which their obsessive hatred for President Trump blinds them to reality and causes them to say things, every day, that are inexplicably stupid. |Read more at Powerline

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N.H. State House Leaders To Lobbyists: You’re Covered By Anti-Harassment Policies, Too

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

All State House lobbyists got a first-of-its-kind letter from leaders of the New Hampshire House and Senate last week, detailing the Legislature’s sexual harassment policies and reporting procedures. Its message was simple: Lobbyists should know they’re covered by those policies, too, and should feel comfortable speaking up if they experience harassment. | More at NHPR

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Shaheen, Hassan Won’t Hold Up Budget for DACA

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

Both New Hampshire’s U.S. senators said Monday they will not hold up a budget deal as leverage for immigration reform.

President Donald Trump ended the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – or DACA – last year.  The program protected tens of thousands of kids who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Trump gave Congress until March to find a fix, but so far, it hasn’t been resolved. | Keep Reading at NHPR

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