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Education Teachers Union Report Misses Mark on NH Education Spending
Education Teachers Union Report Misses Mark on NH Education Spending. Posted to Politics at NH Journal InsideSources May 2, 2021 by Michael Graham. The headline is the Concord Monitor was hard to miss: “N.H. Ranks Dead Last In the Nation for State Education Funding.”...
Senate Finance Committee Reviews Budget
GST Board member and NH House Representative Jesse Edwards reports on Budget Development. Representative Edwards is working with the Senate Finance Committee to support their review. May 3, 2021 The Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Gary Daniels, completed...
Now Is the Time To Tell NH Lawmakers What To Do
Distant Dome: Now Is the Time To Tell NH Lawmakers What To Do. This April 26, 2021 column by Garry Rayno for InDepthNH.org is posted with his permission. Garry provides a broader assessment of NH budget and legislative issues beyond just spending and taxes. CONCORD,...
Secretary of State Bill Gardner Statement on H.R. 1
Secretary of State Bill Gardner Commented Against H.R. 1 on March 30, 2021. H.R. 1, also called Senate version S. 1, is the bill to implement a Federal takeover of every state election law....
Right to Work is Right for New Hampshire!
Right to Work is Right for New Hampshire! Tom Thomson (son of GST co-Founder Mel Thomson) wrote the following commentary. Once again, Right to Work legislation is before our New Hampshire Legislature and I believe with Republicans in control of the House, Senate and...
Election Integrity: 62% Don’t Think Voter ID Laws Discriminate
Rasmussen Reports on April 13, 2021 issued the following Election Integrity survey information. "Most voters say it’s more important to prevent cheating in elections than to make it easier to vote and, by more than a two-to-one margin, they reject claims that voter ID...
2020 Election Issues
Election Integrity has been an issue for Granite State Taxpayers for nearly a decade. Consequently, the issues reported in other states in the 2020 election are a major concern. Allegations of irregularities and unconstitutional changes in law in other states have...
GST Comments on House Budget
Analysis of Tax Changes Proposed by the NH House. by GST Secretary Dan McGuire Following is an analysis of the tax changes in the proposed House budget. The good news is that there are a lot of tax reductions. The bad news is that most of them are delayed, so they...
GST Supports SB 43 to Audit Windham Election Results
GST Supports SB 43 to Audit Windham Election Results. After the November 2020 election for Windham, NH (Rockingham County District 7) Representative, the Democrat candidate Kristi St. Laurent requested a recount. The hand recount on 11/12/20 produced an average...
GST Opposes HB 107 Minimum Wage Hike
Granite State Taxpayers opposes HB 107 which would raise the minimum wage in New Hampshire. GST opposed raising the minimum wage when it was last proposed in 2020 with HB 186. Government intervention in the economy has both intended and unintended effects. Minimum...