Tell Senator Bradgon RGGI Must Die

by Steve MacDonald

No one will ever get to testify at a hearing. No roll call need be taken. No accountability. No responsibility. The tax will simply go up, and you will pay for it repeatedly, through every transaction, at every office, store, service provider, at home, and in the higher cost of government, every single day.

At is its simplest RGGI is taxation without representation and the only power the people have at their disposal to correct this injustice is to elect a majority of representatives who will act to repeal it.

They have done that in the New Hampshire House. If the State Senate fails to act for the immediate repeal of RGGI, then whose rights were they elected to protect and why are they more important than ours?

Note: Today, Thursday, May 5th from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM one of our Representatives, who wants to repeal RGGI, will be debating State Senator Bragdon (http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/members/senate11.asp) who is against repeal, on NHPR’s “The Exchange” radio program:
http://www.nhpr.org/exchange

PLEASE CALL IN at 1-800-892-6477 and get our message out to the (President of the) NH State Senate in no uncertain terms; that you want to be an RGGI free state and to stop paying taxes that you have no control over.

H/T NH Tea Party Coalition for the program information.

King Reggie
by Steve MacDonald

I never thought it would come to this but somehow, even with a super majority in the New Hampshire State Senate, I have to fight Republicans to do something so obvious it pains me to think they are incapable of seeing it for themselves. Why have we not yet repealed RGGI with a veto-proof majority?

I guess our State Senate has been bought out by King Reggie, maybe with land and titles, or some fiscal inducement. Why else permit the monarchical ability of this outside power to raise taxes arbitrarily, and indefinitely, without any accountability to the people who are to be taxed?

Didn’t we start a revolution over that a few years back?

Here’s an idea. If the moderate leanings of the more level headed “Republicans” in the New Hampshire state senate demand that we pursue some conservation driven agenda, and none of the existing Green mandates already in place at the state level will do, at least do us the courtesy of a repeal and replace. Remove and repeal the unaccountable, arbitrary third party tax scheme run by King Reggie known as RGGI and bring forth some new idea that the taxpayers would actually have some control over, which we can then debate and kill on the spot. (hint-hint!)
Or, you can make excuses, legislate give backs that will only grow the taxpayer funded bureaucracy to manage them, tie our exit to yet another outside power (like some other state), or just bend over and kiss King Reggies….ring. Yes. All hail king Reggie. Long may he tax us without fear of retribution.

My suggestion? Grow a set, remember what state sovereignty means, recall how and why you even have that super majority, and kick King Reggie to the curb. No self-respecting Republican would stand for this. I can’t believe we are even having this conversation.