New Hampshire faces a budget crisis, and it’s time to speak up. As the New Hampshire House, Senate and Gov. Ayotte work on the budget, we must acknowledge that past decisions — such as eliminating the Interest & Dividends Tax and cutting business taxes — have contributed to this shortfall.
No cutting services is how we trim all the pork the left has put out there, reining in all the waste, and exposing the fruad... Government should be lean and transparent.
John - cutting waste and fraud would be a good thing. If we take the federal government cuts that Musk has made, as an example, I haven’t seen a single thing described as waste or fraud. Shouldn’t Musk, have submitted an itemized report showing the waste he cut, shouldn’t all of the fraudsters been charged with fraud? Calling cuts ‘reining in waste and fraud’, is just more scamming of the American people. Show me exactly where the waste is, and exactly what is fraudulent, then we can have a serious discussion on correcting it.
Conservatives want low taxes because they fundamentally believe that money belongs to individuals, not governments. Individuals work to earn the money and they should keep as much as possible, while providing a social safety net, paying for police and fire, etc.
We also know and have the lesson often repeated that government will expand to spend all revenues allocated to it, and then ask for more. The government is insatiable. Government bureaucrats almost never say "we have enough." So every year, the budgets are the same as last year, plus a few percentage points. And over time, this balloons into unsustainable spending.
Public school funding is a requirement because all students have a right to attend it. But when schools are subpar, especially in the poorer areas that this letter-writer seems most concerned about, it creates a trap for parents who want a better life for their children but the children have a hard time escaping the cycle because their education or opportunities may be inadequate.
Instead of addressing this issue directly, most on the Left just side with the teacher's union and demand more funds for public education without accountability. So bad teachers get protected, schools get locked down during Covid, teachers' jobs are secure, and poor outcomes are never a problem. The answer is always "we need more money."
Setting up real accountability and insisting on excellent outcomes for all students can only be done if the teacher's union loses its power and local school committees can take steps to dismantle poorly performing schools and fire poor instructors. But that will never be supported by the Left because most of them owe their election to their union supporters. So the only way to actually fix this is to setup an alternative system outside the public school system.
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No cutting services is how we trim all the pork the left has put out there, reining in all the waste, and exposing the fruad... Government should be lean and transparent.
John - cutting waste and fraud would be a good thing. If we take the federal government cuts that Musk has made, as an example, I haven’t seen a single thing described as waste or fraud. Shouldn’t Musk, have submitted an itemized report showing the waste he cut, shouldn’t all of the fraudsters been charged with fraud? Calling cuts ‘reining in waste and fraud’, is just more scamming of the American people. Show me exactly where the waste is, and exactly what is fraudulent, then we can have a serious discussion on correcting it.
Conservatives want low taxes because they fundamentally believe that money belongs to individuals, not governments. Individuals work to earn the money and they should keep as much as possible, while providing a social safety net, paying for police and fire, etc.
We also know and have the lesson often repeated that government will expand to spend all revenues allocated to it, and then ask for more. The government is insatiable. Government bureaucrats almost never say "we have enough." So every year, the budgets are the same as last year, plus a few percentage points. And over time, this balloons into unsustainable spending.
Public school funding is a requirement because all students have a right to attend it. But when schools are subpar, especially in the poorer areas that this letter-writer seems most concerned about, it creates a trap for parents who want a better life for their children but the children have a hard time escaping the cycle because their education or opportunities may be inadequate.
Instead of addressing this issue directly, most on the Left just side with the teacher's union and demand more funds for public education without accountability. So bad teachers get protected, schools get locked down during Covid, teachers' jobs are secure, and poor outcomes are never a problem. The answer is always "we need more money."
Setting up real accountability and insisting on excellent outcomes for all students can only be done if the teacher's union loses its power and local school committees can take steps to dismantle poorly performing schools and fire poor instructors. But that will never be supported by the Left because most of them owe their election to their union supporters. So the only way to actually fix this is to setup an alternative system outside the public school system.
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