Regarding the governor’s position on paid family medical leave: He views it as another tax on the good citizens of New Hampshire, and that he will not tolerate. In much the same way, he vetoes the net metering bill because of its supposed deleterious effect on the N.H. ratepayers.
Yet, in the same breath, he raves about the “New Hampshire Advantage” and the lowering of business taxes as being beneficial to our state’s economic growth. Where is that N.H. advantage when it comes to families having to take unpaid leave to support each other? What advantage do we have if we continue to support a policy that promotes fossil fuels and downplays biomass, solar and other alternative energies? Whom does this governor truly support: big business or the common person? If we are seen as a wealthy state, why isn’t that reflected in our education? In our broader health care system? In our concern for others?
Hope you like your insulated office, Governor, isolated from the neediest and our increasingly polluted environment, because your policies, your vetoes, are not for the good of all, and you need to go in 2020.
JANET MOORE
Andover