Granite State Taxpayers surveyed primary candidates for their positions on topics of interest to taxpayers.
Candidates for the New Hampshire House and Senate were asked the following questions:
Would you oppose any income, sales, or consumption tax, and any other increase in the overall tax burden in New Hampshire?
Would you support decreasing state spending or at least stopping any increase in state spending?
Would you support limiting legal voting to permanent New Hampshire residents only?
Would you support requiring that all NH services that require residency use the same standard (voting, residency, in-state tuition, hunting, vehicle registration, etc.)?
Do you believe that state public school funding should be set by the legislature and not by the courts?
Would you support passing Right-to-Work legislation?
Would you support pension reforms for government employees including a transition from defined-benefit to defined-contribution plans?
Would you vote to terminate expanded Medicaid if the Federal contribution is cut?
Would you oppose casino gambling?
To review the GST ranking of NH House and Senate candidates, please click on the following links:
Survey by Name
Survey by District
Survey by Score
To download a password protected spreadsheet with survey data and specific candidate answers and comments, please click on the following links
GST2014 Survey Spreadsheet
Granite State Taxpayers is New Hampshire’s oldest statewide taxpayer association. Founded in 1990 by former Governor Mel Thomson and former State Senator George Lovejoy, our mission is to inform, educate and motivate New Hampshire taxpayers and to lobby the legislature on their behalf.