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And it makes less sense now when a state with the ninth highest personal income per capita in the country can’t balance its budget without cutting $50 million from its University System, capping school budgets and trimming social services while giving a green light to gambling interests.
In the 2018 election the Democrats won majorities in the New Hampshire House and Senate for the first time in nearly a decade and for only the fifth time since Franklin Pierce was elected President in 1853. Two years later the majorities were erased.
For more than half-a-century New Hampshire politics and government have been overshadowed by the Pledge, the vow by candidates seeking state office to neither propose nor endorse a broad-based sales or income tax.