New Hampshire lawmakers eye an income tax

  Last week New Hampshire Speaker of the House Terie Norelli let the cat out of the bag. She has an economic summit planned in which she admitted ALL tax increases will be on the table. This naturally includes once again looking at implementing an income tax.

  But the speaker is not alone, Rep. Susan Almy has been trying to keep talk about an income tax hidden from New Hampshire voters because of how unpopular this idea is with New Hampshire residents.

When the Herald mentioned that all forms of revenue, including an income tax, would be part of the discussion, alarms went off all over the conservative landscape. Almy said she expected that reaction, which is why she was working behind the scenes up until now.

  She was hiding her agenda from the people she is supposed to represent but she claims that because Governor John Lynch claims that he opposes an income tax that that means there won’t be one.

  This is where I take issue with the representative, just because the governor claims that he is against an income tax does not mean that he actually is against an income tax. Governor Lynch is a lying bastard who can never again be trusted to be taken at his word. He proved that to New Hampshire voters after claiming that he was against gay marriage before he signed gay marriage into law.

  This is not an issue as to whether you are  for or against gay marriage, this is about trust, this is  about a man who during the gubernatorial debates swore that he opposed gay marriage and was elected with the people assuming that he was anti-gay marriage only to find out that he was lying to get elected. Governor Lynch claims that he is a moderate Democrat yet when the liberals in the state legislature passed a gay marriage bill, a bill that he claimed that he opposed, rather than stand by his stated position he fell in line with the liberals in his party and signed the bill. And now we are supposed to believe him when he says that he opposes a state income tax? I don’t think so.

  I would have more respect for this man if he had run as a gay marriage supporter and won election on his stated position, I could accept that, but he chose to hide his true position in order to win election– that I can not accept. He lied to the New Hampshire voters once how am I supposed to believe that he is not lying about his position on a state income tax?

  Judging by Governor Lynch’s actions on the gay marriage issue I can not take this man at his word any more. If the liberals in the New Hampshire Democrat party pass an income tax I am sure that Governor Lynch will acquiesce to them and sign the bill.

    During a recession, a recession that Obama’s policies have helped deepen, one has to ask themselves whether it is good policy to be taking money away from people who are already curbing their spending and I think that we all know the answer to that question. If the state government takes even more money away from the people who are still working it will slow even further the spending of those people, deepening the recession. Governor Lynch and his Democrat cronies in the state government need to be stopped. They have done enough damage already.

  When you couple John Lynch’s lack of backbone dealing with his own party with the fact that he has cost the state millions of dollars with his failed grab of private money that has left last year’s budget with a $100 million hole you have to figure that the state is desperate to come up with more revenue making it possible that Governor Lynch will use this as an excuse to sign the income tax bill that he claims he opposes.

  The real solution would be to cut spending but when is the last time that a Democrat has cut spending? Spending cuts are not an option with this governor so that means that an increase in revenue is the only other possibility.

  We just have to hope that we can hold this off until after the 2010 election or else New Hampshire residents are going to have even less cash in their pockets. And that is the last thing that the people need when they are already struggling to get by.