This is New Hampshire. If you want an income tax, sales tax, or capital gains tax, move to Massachusetts, Maine, or Vermont. Three convenient locations. One near you.

A lot of the problems with runaway school budgets would go away if the little “School board recommends…” line on the ballot went away. It unfairly influences and encourages a vote from people who don’t understand what they’re voting for. Other departments get no such influence. If there’s an article to appropriate funds for a new fire truck or something, there’s no “Fire department recommends” line…

If Democrats hate you, you’re doing something right.

In a few more days, my first 500 receiver sets will available for sale. The wait list is already larger than this number, but I don’t expect everyone on it will buy so drop your email at nharsenal.com if you want to be notified as soon as they’re ready.

Public schools have been shrinking vocational training and pushing college for a long time now. This needs to go the other way. As AI advances, the white collar jobs will be lost first. We’re entering an era where the only “good paying jobs” will be the blue collar ones.

If you want to make something more expensive, ask the government to make it cheaper.

All in, New Hampshire spends about $6,600 per minute on K-12 education. And after **14 years** of instruction, 18 year old's still aren’t able to get good jobs unless they pay for ANOTHER four years of school? The whole model needs an update.

My Fidium bill jumped up $30 a month because “the promotion ended.” Called them up to haggle & they offered 2 GB speed for less than what I was paying for 1 GB. Why not just give me that in the first place instead of trying to jack me for an extra $30?

In the future, gender reassignment surgery will live in the history books next to lobotomies and electroshock therapy, and our great grandchildren will wonder how people in our time supported such insane and barbaric practices.

Private health insurance companies have a strong incentive to keep you alive so you can continue to be a paying customer. A government-run healthcare system has no such incentive.

This is an 8th grade final exam from 1912. How many 8th graders do you think could pass this today without calculators, the internet, or AI? For that matter, how many college grads?

How is Massachusetts a real place in America?

Lily’s up there personally inspecting the power lines trying to bring down energy prices. That’s dedication right there.

Republicans are making it so everyone can vote whether their property taxes should be capped, and Democrats tried to challenge this in court and keep it off the ballot so you couldn't vote for it. Why do Democrats hate democracy?

What a week! Here’s a quick recap of what’s happening in NH: 1. Republicans have a measure on the ballot where you can vote for a property tax cap to cap runaway admin costs in schools (this doesn’t cap teachers or necessary expenditures). 2. Democrats knew this would be popular and likely to pass, so they challenged it in court to prevent it from being on the ballot. 3. Realizing they were likely to lose, Democrats filed an LSR to create a state income tax and sales tax. 4. Their challenge to the property tax cap failed in court. They appealed and lost the appeal too as of this morning. The property tax cap WILL be on the ballot. Vote Red down ballot so the House can kill their income and sales tax bill when it reaches the floor.

The photo on the left is what NH Republicans have pledged to do for Granite Staters. The photo on the right is a house bill filed by NH Democrats a few days ago. Independents will decide this election. Fortunately the right choice couldn’t be more obvious.

Here’s a little story about why we’re putting a property tax cap on the ballot. In 2024 I went to our local school deliberative session. If you’ve never been to one of these, it’s where the public can vote to amend the school budget. One of the school nurses spoke up. “We need more nurses!” she says. She seemed very stressed. Our student population has been in decline, why do we need more nurses? Well, apparently it’s because if a teacher is out and they can’t get a sub, they use the nurse as a backup sub, which leaves a gap in nursing. Everyone reading this is probably thinking “it sounds like you need another sub, not another nurse.” And that’s the correct position. Why on Earth would we hire another fully qualified RN so she can go be a sub instead of just hiring a sub (at less than half the salary)? This is the mentality you’re dealing with with these people. And this is just one example. In the same session, the school board talked about repaving the parking lot. They wanted to spend $150k on a survey first, so they could take that to paving companies and get a quote. A member of the public spoke up and pointed out that was unnecessary — the construction companies will come out and quote it. “That’s not how it works.” was the response from the school board. 🙄 The rest of the meeting was full of similar suggestions and challenges. They wanted $20k to eliminate the rear parking lot and add basket ball courts at the middle school. There is a public park literally across a side street with basket ball courts already that the school has been using. 🤦‍♂️ $15k for this. $60k for that. $10k for the other thing. They sat there and argued over the SMALLEST parts of the budget, while ignoring the elephant in the room — the $20 million admin/non-teacher expense. If you broke our $37 million budget down into 3 columns (teacher salaries, admin salaries, and everything else) it’s literally $10m / $20m / $7m. They only ever want to talk about cutting from the $7m column. All of the teachers and staff sit together in these meetings. Every time someone suggested cuts, they would shout them down. It was honestly like being in a room full of middle schoolers. And they all left as soon as the budget was closed. Didn’t care about staying for the rest of the meeting. To me it seems like a conflict of interest for school staff to even be in these meetings. When 100+ staff members show up and vote for their own raises, some of whom don’t even live in the district, that drowns out 100+ votes from the residents paying for it. We talk about “local control” a lot in New Hampshire. But there’s a fine line between local control and local tyranny. The system is set up in a way that favors the system. Every time we send more money to schools, whether it’s local, state, or federal, the budget just increases to absorb these new funds instead of offsetting what property taxpayers already kick in. Enough is enough. We tried keeping it local. We really did. But the SAU’s have consistently failed us. Republicans have put forth a property tax cap on the ballot this year. Democrats tried to block this in the courts — they don’t want you to cap their endless stream of funding. But they failed. The tax cap doesn’t cap teacher pay or necessary expenditures. It caps runaway “admin” costs, which have doubled (both in headcount and expense) and in recent years. Meanwhile Democrats, expecting this cap to pass, have responded this week by filing a bill to add state income and sales taxes. Show up to vote this November. Support the tax cap and vote R down ballot on state races. It’s the only way to keep the pocket pickers at bay.

I hear this from a lot of people. Trump isn’t running, guys. Regardless of how you feel about the national parties, Republicans in NH need your vote to prevent an income tax, more section 8 housing, and higher property taxes. The Democrats are pushing for ALL of these things.

If you were a 90’s Democrat, you’re basically a 2020’s Republican.

Democrat leaders are terrified you’re going to vote to stop letting them pick your pockets.

The property tax cap will be on the ballot. 💪