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So today the Republican supermajority House voted to enshrine the prohibition of raising revenue through income into New Hampshire's state constitution.
I have a bridge I'd like to sell to anyone who doesn't think this is an obvious, partisan, Get-Out-The-Vote move.
"You mean if I go out and vote for it and vote for the folks who put it there I won't get taxed?" is what Bill O'Brien's gang presumes the average voter will think. (He's wrong, of course; voters aren't as dumb as he thinks they are. They aren't dumb at all.)
The other trick will be to lie and claim that the sensible people who voted against this support taxing your income. I'm guessing it'll be a mailer, or a robo-call, or both.
Leave that aside for a moment, step back and look at the bigger picture.
House Republicans, led by Bill O'Brien and D.J. Bettencourt, have so little respect for our state's constitution that they would forever change it, and would forever bind New Hampshire's options for sustaining herself in the future, for the sake of winning some votes next November.
This is a shameful, dishonorable act.
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