Spirit of Today’s NHGOP Summarized

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Exulting in misery!

Republicans cheered the [JUA] decision as rightful but didn’t immediately offer up their ideas of their own.

From the sidelines, former governor John Sununu declined to offer any suggestions. “I never would have put the state in such a precarious position by building a budget based on such a foolhardy gambit,” he said. “This was extremely risky. This was a wing and a prayer.”

But what would Sununu do from this point forward? “That’s his problem,” he said.

Seems perfectly in line with Senior’s I Hate NH Tour.

Meanwhile, how dare those House Democrats revive their crazy ideas about having the well-to-do pay their fair share?

House Finance Chairwoman Marjorie Smith of Durham noted that House budget-writers had passed two taxes that didn’t make the final cut for the budget: a tax on estates worth more than $2 million and another on capital gains over $5,000. Together they would bring in about $85 million. House Ways and Means Chairwoman Susan Almy of Lebanon seconded that in a phone message this week.


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  • hannah

    the perfect tool for those people who are convinced that it is good to have a stratified society.  The process has really been simple, sort of like getting people addicted to stupefying drugs.  First you make it readily available and then, when everyone’s got to relying on it to make life run easier and smoother, you restrict the supply and deny access to those you consider undeserving to begin with.  Which would explain how come the former victims of segregation and deprivation are still in the bottom tier.  
    What’s really attractive about using money to decide who gets to participate and who should be excluded is that with money in the middle, it’s hard to identify who’s make the decisions and why.  It all looks so natural; so consistent with the natural order of social organization, with good (rich) people on top and the lessers (poor) below.

    How the poor keep getting poorer can only be explained as free-market magic.  It’s all automatic–until you look closely and see all the cheaters and scammers and other assorted crooks who invariable target the people who already have hardly anything to lose.  
    Why is that, do you think?  I’m thinking it’s because some people get high on depriving others of life and limb–sort of like some boys get high blowing up frogs.