Higher Tolls and Gas Taxes Coming to New Hampshire?

 You would think that when your governor passes his new budget, and that budget has a 17.5% increase in spending, that there might be some money in there to take care of your state’s road. Wouldn’t you? Well, you would be wrong. When a budget is passed that is three times higher than the rate of inflation, and there is all kinds of new spending for social programs, there is no room to fund something so trivial as roads, I suppose.

 The Transporatation Commisionor, Chuck O’Leary, will be going in front of the Executive Council this week to look for money. He will be making some cuts to projects that cannot be afforded. Of course, there is always another option, with Democrats in charge instead of cutting projects you can’t afford, you find a way to afford them. Any guesses how to make that happen?

Beside cuts, there is the option of finding more money — in drivers’ pockets.

The state can raise turnpike tolls and/or raise gasoline taxes. Don’t expect Lynch to take the lead on a gas tax hike — he opposed it while running for his second term and joked that he couldn’t figure out where opponent Jim Coburn stood on the issue. The Executive Council has the power to raise tolls, but isn’t jumping to act. Hollingworth said she’s told O’Leary it’s his job to press for higher taxes and tolls.

Raising tolls, and gas taxes, BRILLIANT. With all the new taxes that have been put in place we still need more. As far as not expecting Governor Lynch to go along with the gas tax because he was against it before the election, why should we believe anything he said before the election? He told us he was against gay marriage, then signs a civil unions bill that is marriage. It even says in the bill to refer to traditional marriage with any questions. He told us he was against taxes, we see how that is working out. This man can no longer be taken at his word.

  It is time for the people of New Hampshire to stop sleepwalking through this next election cycle. I don’t care if you are against the war, that’s fine, but we need to fix the problem that was created by your war protest vote last November. We need to take New Hampshire back to her Independent, lower taxes, and lesser government intrusion ways before it is too late.

 New Hampshire may have started down a path that she can no longer return from, the deeper down that path you go, the easier it is to get lost. We need to turn around next year, and try to find our way back, before we get lost.

 If we haven’t already.