David Eisenstatder elaborates on the new Keene budget proposal in the Sentinel.
A New Hampshire senate committee considered the bill which would remove NH from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap and trade program, and deemed it inexpedient to legislate (translation: not a good bill), and the right-to-work bill heads to John Lynch.
Keene Rep. Kris Roberts: “In many ways I like most people in New Hampshire don’t care much which party has control, which people are filling leadership positions, we just want the type of leadership that we can trust to make the right decisions fairly and not for some political agenda or personal status.”
Why I disagree with libertarian activist Denis Goddard about the coming dollar apocalypse.
Keene officials’ proposed 2011-2012 budget calls for a 2.51 percent increase in taxes this year.
The proposal was released this morning.
City Manager John A. MacLean writes in an introduction to the document that this year’s budget represents one of the smallest increases in spending seen in a decade — less than 1 percent.
However, reduced revenues mean more money would have to be raised by taxes to meet the spending plan.
A commenter on the article regarding the Weare, NH Police protest responded to the claims that Free Staters are trying to “force” their way on others:
I’m surprised at the number of people who think liberty can be “forced” on anyone. How could anyone object to being left alone? Could it really be an objection to the idea of having to leave other people alone? So the real question is, what kind of people feel threatened by not being able to meddle in other people’s lives?
– Bob Robertson, Manchester
Amen, Bob. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Unless someone is harming another person or that persons property, leave them alone.
In response to an article in the Concord Monitor about disgruntled Republicans planning a “coup” against house speaker Bill O’Brien, Kris Roberts argues:
A coup would be a really bad idea because it would allow the speaker and his leadership team to avoid taking the hit for the major cuts; whoever became the new speaker and whoever assumed leadership positions would be held responsible for the final budget.
The most effective way to deal with the current problem, the best way to look out for the interest of the people of New Hampshire would be the formation of a third caucus, what I would call for a better term the “Common Sense Caucus” made up of men and women who would be willing to put New Hampshire first, party second. Men and women who can take the time and decide just what are our core values, what programs that we believe define us as a state, programs that we must find funding for; Programs that we would be willing to stand up and fight for.
Fifty or sixty men and women may not have the power to conduct a successful coup but they could have the power to limit the power of the king; requiring him to lead by a set of rules. If one doesn’t believe so I recommend that they take out their history book and read about a little place named Runnymede and that piece of paper called the Magna Carta. After all you don’t have to kill the king to get him to look after the welfare of all the citizens of New Hampshire.
