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Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire State Director Greg Moore | NH Journal
As our nation grapples with the reality of COVID-19, we must come to grips with another devastating threat — our national debt.
With our nation expecting to borrow $3 trillion in this quarter alone, pushing our overall debt over $25 trillion, some states want to compound this economic harm by asking federal taxpayers to bail them out from decades of bad choices.
It is time for some true leaders to step up and say “no.”
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In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom joined other Western governors to ask the federal government for $1 trillion. That state has had huge financial problems for years, and getting the federal government to bail it out would stall needed changes that must happen and should have taken place already.
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While some states are looking to have the federal government solve their long-standing problems, there’s no reason why New Hampshire taxpayers should have to foot the bill for other states’ irresponsibility.
Here in the Granite State, after the recession of 2008-09 , the state took its medicine, passing a budget in 2011 that reduced total state spending by 11 percent and state general fund spending by 18 percent.
These were tough choices, but they set the state on a path for prosperity, allowing it to reduce business taxes, which, in turn, set the state up for having a booming economy.
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Other states like New Jersey, California and Illinois, should follow the same template. Using this time to fix their fundamental, structural problems will leave them far better positioned for the future than simply trying to put a federal Band-Aid over a gaping wound that’s been festering for years.
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Why should we be asked to pay for their mistakes?
Granite Staters are willing to do our part, in a national effort, to help America recover from COVID-19. What we aren’t willing to do is subsidize other states’ bad decisions because they don’t have the courage to fix their mistakes.
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A better strategy would be for the U.S. Congress to give states the flexibility to spend the dollars that the federal government already sent them — including the funds from the CARES Act — to use to meet individual states’ needs. Let’s cut through the red tape from Washington and let state and local governments make the best decisions about how they should recover.
New Hampshire’s congressional delegation should speak out against these efforts. It’s time for Reps. Chris Pappas and Ann Kuster to push back against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s untenable and reckless plan to spend another $3 trillion, the largest portion of which would be state bailouts.
Enough is enough.
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