The Portsmouth Herald's Sunday editorial slams the recently approved New Hampshire budget, and the legislative leaders who wrote it:
Nearly every tax disproportionately hits residents of moderate and lower incomes. There is the increased cigarette tax, increased car registration fee, and 9 percent tax on gambling winnings. We don't have casinos, or slots, so we're talking scratch tickets and bingo.
Then there's the increased rooms and meals tax and its inclusion of campgrounds. To call this closing a loophole as did Gov. Lynch and Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, among others, is patently misleading.
Voters will never support an income tax so long as there is a lack of fiscal restraint. Democrats can continue to scream in all corners of the state that they cut spending, but this rings hollow with yet another record spending budget.
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