Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Our Healthcare is at Risk
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But right now the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are jeopardizing the healthcare that makes that possible to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
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But right now the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are jeopardizing the healthcare that makes that possible to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
“Elections have consequences,” is an old adage and the last general election may be one of the most consequential in many years, both in New Hampshire and nationally.
Chief among them: a decade of business tax cuts that have drained state revenues without delivering the promised economic boom.
In broad terms, the very people who had to make the decisions for the draconian cuts in the proposed budget are the ones who helped put the committee in its awkward position.
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.
With multiple polls showing housing as the top issue in New Hampshire by a wide margin, it’s no shock that the current legislative session is awash with proposals ostensibly aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis.
The procedural order issued on March 26 by (and here’s the tipoff that news is involved) just one of the three members of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Ninety-nine point nine times out of 100, orders of the PUC are signed by all three commissioners.
It all started when my running buddy (and constitutional law professor) Arpy Saunders approached me in the locker room of the Concord Y to help him form a legal team.
There is a new government-promoted industry that is threatening New Hampshire’s timber industry, loggers, timber processors, and heavily timbered towns that depend on timber tax revenues.