New Hampshire Voters, Hold Onto Your Wallets

You asked for it New Hampshire, you are going to get it. This is what happens when Democrats control everything. Who do you think pays the taxes raised on buisnesses? You do, they pass the cost on to you. These taxes proposed below are all taxes on the average citizen.

From the New Hampshire Union Leader:

AMONG THE bills introduced this legislative session to “raise revenue” for the state (increase taxes) is House Bill 820, titled “An act establishing a tax on candy.”

HB 820 is one of those bills the sheer needless complexity of which baffles the imagination. Rather than simply impose a sales tax on candy, the bill would require all sellers of candy — retailers, wholesalers and vending machines — to be licensed by the state. Candy vendors would then have to buy tax stamps for every individual piece of candy they sell. Yes, tax stamps, to be affixed to each piece of candy. (Fittingly, the sponsor of this new Stamp Act was born in England.)

The candy tax rate would be a whopping 50 cents per pound.

No, there are no exemptions for school children or non-profits. To raise money by selling chocolate bars, schools, scouting organizations and other groups would have to be licensed by the state. If they order their chocolate unstamped from an out-of-state vendor, they’d have to buy the tax stamps and stamp each piece.

This plan is only one of several tax-hiking bills sponsored or co-sponsored by Rep. Catherine Mulholland, D-Grafton. In addition to candy, Rep. Mulholland also wants to tax or further tax beer, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, all bottled beverages, entertainment admission charges, commercial and industrial property, vacation homes, luxury cars worth more than $30,000, estates worth more than $3 million, business payrolls higher than $10,000 a week, gambling winnings and “any item costing $10,000 or more.”

It is not surprising that a Democratic legislator would seek to tax so many of life’s pleasures and economic stimulants. This is the logical extension of the reasoning that produced last year’s (and this year’s) cigarette tax hike.

The question is whether the leadership of her party will doom their newfound majority by supporting these punitive measures to squeeze revenue out of people who engage in behaviors of which some Democrats disapprove.