Stop the NH Gas Tax!
The last thing we need is an 83% increase in the cost of gasoline and diesel. As a NH resident, taxpayer and energy consumer, I call on you to oppose HB 617 which contains the proposed gasoline and diesel tax increase.
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Americans for Prosperity Offers Support for Senate Finance Committee Budget Proposal
MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today offered support for the Senate Finance Committee’s proposed budget (HB 1 & 2). The Senate budget eliminates many costly tax and spending items included in the House version of the budget, such as Medicaid expansion under ObamaCare, a 67% increase in the gas and diesel [...]
Foster’s Daily Democrat: Web site offers alternatives to proposed, panned UNH logos
By Andrea Bulfinch DURHAM — University of New Hampshire Students displeased with the potential for a new logo by New York design firm, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, have created yet another online group in protest and the hope of deterring school officials from going with any of the three proposed options. Following a [...]
Union Leader: Senate OKs House bill lowers emissions cap to meet RGGI standards
By GARRY RAYNO CONCORD — Electricity generators will have to lower their fossil fuel emissions under a bill approved by the Senate Thursday on a 14-10 vote. House Bill 306 lowers the regional emissions cap under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, but does not make other major changes to the program. The bill would bring [...]
Americans for Prosperity Disappointed as U.S. Reps. Shea-Porter and Kuster Fail to Vote for Keystone XL Pipeline
MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) is expressing their disappointment in U.S. Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster for failing to support common-sense legislation in the U.S. House that would have created jobs and promoted economic growth. “Representatives Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster had the chance to vote to promote job growth [...]
Americans for Prosperity Disappointed in Senate Vote to Raise RGGI Tax, Electric Rates for NH Residents
MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) expressed disappointment that the New Hampshire Senate today passed a bill (HB 306) that raises the state’s tax via the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) by 30%, according to estimates by the Department of Environmental Services (DES). The bill would dramatically reduce RGGI credits to states [...]
