Newest Democrat House Member Bill O’Neil – No New Taxes in the Budget

Fresh off his 37 vote special election win, Democrat Bill O’Neil has already made a mark in Concord. He’s gone on the record to state that there are no tax increases in the Democrats new House budget.

Oh yeah.  Doing Manchester Ward 2 proud.

H/T Citizens For A Strong New Hampshire

Remembering Democrat Rule In New Hampshire – Part 1

by Steve MacDonald

In the 2006 Elections Democrats took control of the New Hampshire House for the first time in 95 years (giving them complete control of State government for what would end up being four years).  What happened after that must not be forgotten, for it is the doom of men that they forget.

They forget that the House Democrats first move was to turn budget policy on its head.  Instead of estimating realistic revenues so that the governor could have a guideline for his budget, they would let the governor request a 14% expansion of state government in February of 2007, to which they would pad or add their spending spree agenda items before figuring out how to tax New Hampshire citizens to pay for their wish list.

In the now infamous shout heard round the State House, Democrat House leader Dan Eaton would later condense the entire four year budget strategy of the New Hampshire left into one sentence.

 ’It makes sense to know how much you’re spending before you decide how much money to raise.’

Now that might just make sense for a school trip or new band uniforms but this wasn’t a fundraiser.  Eaton was talking about using the force of law and the power of the state to extract juice from the fruits of other peoples labors based on the whimsy of big government legislators with little or no regard for its affect on the state, our economy, or the people who would be paying, and that was exactly how the Democrats would govern.

Spot the Hypocrisy?

The current Democrat narrative is one of a Republican Legislature with skewed priorities out to hurt the most vulnerable, an agenda to which they themselves could easily relate because in March of 2007 the new Democrat Majority, in the midst of their out of the gate 2007 spending spree, found time to preserve barns, buy a Mountain, and expand the bureaucracy, but voted down a floor amendment that would have fully funded and completely eliminated, the developmental disabilities waiting list during their first biennium.  In the same month the Democrat controlled Senate bulldozed SB 186, a bill to provide a property tax credit for senior citizens, down to study committee that was then killed in the Democrat controlled NH House.

So despite the New Hampshire Democrats complete control of state government and an unhealthy and unrealistic desire to spend (spend spend), instead of using that opportunity to live up to their rhetoric (to help some of the state’s most vulnerable) they kill bills to help those people and pass a bill that would allow the Democrat party to profit from the sale of the state’s voter list.

And this was just the beginning of tax and spend era of a Democrat party I would promptly dub Hypocrats.

The new Democrat majority had already raised the cigarette tax 35%, increased some annual vehicle registration fees by 20%, added a new ‘real estate tax’ that would screw new home buyers out of $40.00 per recorded page of deed mortgages, and decided that we needed a new $30.00 Scratch ticket without having held a single hearing; there was a luxury sale and use tax on the docket, a payroll tax, an inheritance tax. Taken along with their decision to calculate revenue after the Governor wrote a wish-list budget, the new era of spending and debt, only three months old, was just the beginning of a long and unpleasant four year journey down the toilet.  A journey we are going to walk you through right here, all summer long.

By the way… did you know that the Republican House recently passed 267-12, a measure to add money to the Rainy Day fund the Democrats had drained while also voting to send 1.5 Million to shorten the waiting list for New Hampshire citizens with developmental disabilities.  Yeah, the same waiting list of citizens the Democrats screwed back in 2007.

You are reading "Remembering Democrat Rule Part 1" by Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com.(Home)

Does Carol Agree With Nancy 'No Budget' Pelosi?

Carol SEIU-Porter has not stepped up, to my knowledge, to deny Nancy Pelosi's claim that the federal government can and should close a business in your state if it is not a union shop.  So does she also agree with Nancy that the reason the Democrats never passed a budget--it has been an historical 927 days--was that the "Republican would have filibustered it?"

As Tina Korbe at Hot Air points out...

Too bad budgets can’t be filibustered. They require a simple majority in both House and Senate to pass. What’s more: When Democrats did control both houses, they had a supermajority in the Senate. Republicans could have filibustered only with the help of Democrats. No way to pin this one on Republicans — and, yet, Pelosi still tries. Predictable.

So what about that Carol.  You failed to do your sworn duty to pass an annual budget for political reasons.  There is no public record of you objecting to leadership refusing you your sworn duty.  Why did you not stand up in protest to this illegal stonewalling?  Or...are you planning to blame Republicans as well?

H/T Hot Air

Cross Posted: Does Carol Agree With Nancy 'No Budget' Pelosi?

Revenue Prediction

No, I'm not going to guess how New Hampshire will fare on tax revenue.  I am going to predict how democrats will respond to the news of a surplus and business tax revenues over estimate.

Evil Republicans underestimated revenue to cut the budget so they could screw women, and children, and old people, and (insert name of public union employee here.)

Any increase is a result of policies Democrats put in place (insert soft focus dream sequence here.)

Any outstanding issues have nothing to do with Democrat policies and are the fault of greedy devicise Republicans who want to steal your rights.

The tobacco tax cut will (insert disrupted public service enviroment here), and encourage teenagers to smoke and become a burden on the health care system.

Democrats are happy little faeries sprinkling rainbows and sunshine, and never added 100 taxes and fees, never tried to undercut free speech, never left a nearly billion dollar deficit, never wasted most of an entire session on gender issues, never broke the law and added taxes without hearings, never...

Wait.  They might leave that last part out.

Cross posted: Revenue Prediction

A Funding "Solution" For Democrats Concerned about Budget Cuts

Remember all that stuff we didn't have to have in the New Hampshire budget before 2006 when the democrats started piling it up into what has become our Billion dollar budget deficit?  I don't either.  I'm not even sure what they spent it on which is why I am convinced I can do without it.   All this caterwauling is clearly just cover for keeping the bloated bureaucracy alive so they can milk it for union campaign contributions.

But in the spirit of bi-partisanship, I have a suggestion to their so-called problem; call it a solution--literally.

The liberals, the progressives, the Sullivan-Kitchen-table -socialist-medicine,free speech-stomping, balloon fine-view tax--we spent the state into a billion dollar deficit democrats (and co-dependent clergy and union hangers on), should take those programs we didn't need but that you can't seem to stop spending money on, stick them all in a giant jar of urine, and send it all off with a grant request to the National endowment for the arts (NEA). 

No, I don't think it matters whose urine it is, but maybe the SEA can modify the "dues" process to include alternative forms of "support."  Whip up a catchy slogan like "Give a piss for pensions." How about "'Urine' this together." Or even "A trickle here, a trickle there."  Just have fun with it.  And don't forget...It's just a drop in the bucket, and off to Washington wee go.

It's actually a pretty realistic proposal.  The left is already obsessed with genitals and government. And given the way you democrats project revenues whatever you put in there will be a master-work of fantasy fiction.  Call it Art and bang! you get a check.  Then apply that to whatever "program" you feel you can't do without. 

Here's another helpful suggestion.  Get a second job or start a small business and then give all the money to the government to pay for what you want.  Nothing says I'm not a hypocrite like starting your own evil empire (a small business) and then donating every penny to the biggest charity of all--the US government. Or you could form a lobbying group that advocates taking more of peoples hard earned income in the form higher taxes and more of them, and then go down to Washington DC and see how much of the State of New Hampshire you have to prostitute out to the federal government to get some of that back.

Oh wait.  You have one of those already.  It's called the New Hampshire Democrat party.

Higher taxes and more of them, to pander to special interests who want to leech off taxpayers and small business. That's a message that can win in 2012.   O maybe you'd better just drop the TV ad time and start buying quarter barrels of Budweiser instead.  Your going to need a lot of urine. Which leads me to one more point. Just how much more pissed off will you be if we manage to cut taxpayer funding to the NEA?

Cross posted