We had Chuck Morse (Republican Senate minority leader) and Dan Feltes (Democratic Senate majority leader) on WMUR this morning. They talked about the comprehensive family leave bill, which the Democrats passed and Governor Sununu vetoed. Feltes was saying that we need the family leave bill to attract young workers to New Hampshire.
That's malarkey. People decide to move into New Hampshire if they find, or think they can find, a good job, a better job than the one they have. Then they consider housing costs (rents or house prices), taxes, commuting time, and skiing, snowmobiling, ATV riding, hiking, climbing, fishing, and all the other outdoor activities that New Hampshire is famous for. Few will get down to considering the presence or absence of paid family leave when deciding to come to New Hampshire. Dan Feltes is flim flamming us on that one.
The bill the democrats passed, and the governor vetoed, (SB1) offered generous benefits, and a stiff income tax to pay for them. The current economic boom, good times, came about from both federal and state tax cuts. Adding a 1% (or more, a bureaucrat can raise it if he thinks the program needs more money) undoes the good work that tax cuts have given us.
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