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A better option would be to support an expansion of the child tax credit, and allow more deductions for young families. Children are the seeds of our nation, and they must be nurtured. No one can nurture a child better than their parents, and having more flexibility and affordability for one parent to stay home, raise, and/or educate the child will do far more good than pumping and dumping childcare businesses.

Incentivize the individual or family, don't subsidize the business. Subsidizing the business just ends up in a situation like colleges/universities where the sky is the limit for tuition because the federal government guarantees student loans. Infinite free money to the institution means infinite room for increasing costs, because regardless of the student's ability to pay, the institution gets its money.

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@newrepublic It doesn't seem to be a problem in NH, where we have the same voter registration requirements as the Save America Act.

Oh right, I forgot, your opinion is that married women are too stupid and incompetent to get some basic paperwork together to prove who they are.

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I'm not a libertarian, big or small L. I've lived in NH all but 1 year of my life (that year was in California). NH is so great because outside of our small urban areas and the schools, NH is basically 1970s America. It's not because of libertarianism, it's because NH is inherently conservative.

NH has been run by Dem governors only ~34 years of the past 170. It lives in the traditional Republican tradition, and most NH Democrats are blue dog Democrats, regardless of how they vote.

Small government isn't solely a libertarian belief. It's a 18th and 19th century American belief. You don't need a large state government when municipalities make most of the decisions for themselves. You don't need a strong federal government when state governments make decisions for themselves. This isn't libertarianism, it's traditional Americanism.

NH has carried that tradition better than any other state, and it's not because of Libertarians, it's because the founding ethos of NH was to not be Massachusetts. NH is about the town making decisions about the job of the town, the county is to pool resources of towns to do certain limited jobs, and the state is for towns pooling resources together for certain jobs.

NH isn't solely about the individual. It's about the individual working with others in a community (town). We limit state law so individuals can work together in their community to make their community what they want. This is antithetical to Libertarianism, which is why NH works, and sole Libertarian control never will. The housing laws of last year are a perfect example. The NH way is to change state laws to allow regulation changes, based on what the town wants. Forcing zoning law changes state wide, regardless of local sentiment, the Libertarian position, is the opposite, as an example.

Hopefully this clarifies some things. I am a registered Republican. I've voted Republican in state and federal elections. I 90% vote Republican locally.

I understand your point about other states. NH is different, because 400 years ago it was founded differently, and has always been run differently, but please keep in mind why that is, based on history, and not on what the Libertarians take credit for.

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California is ranked #5 in the world for economy size comparing it to countries, including the United States. This has been done for years. I understand this. If US states are ranked, California already is #1. California being #5 means it's being compared to nations, which would include the US, therefore, as long as California isn't a sovereign nation, the US will always rank higher than California. Hope this helps.

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@NHnewsUpdate @NHDems @Lily4Liberty @Gunblaze1969 @WBZNightside @mannion4nh @DennisMannionNH @JoeSweeneyNH @TnkConservative @thepulseofnh @WGME @NHBulletinNews Lily Tang Williams may not speak English as a first language, but she at least makes sense compared to this overly educated, pampered buffoon. What the heck kind of creature is this?

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@SenatorHassan I'm in NH and I most definitely support this Administration.

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@adamcarolla What in the blue fuck kind of house needs 3000 yards of concrete? That would be almost a million bucks in just concrete here, no steel or labor. That's mind-blowingly insane.

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@RookieIrish76 @epaleezeldin Those were passed by Congress, so SOL on making r-410a great again.

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@RichardGrenell Good thing a new record was set for European imports of Russian gas was set in January! That will show Russia the will that Europe has to support Ukraine.

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Are rents and employee costs maxed at 15% higher than outside the airport? Blaming greed is always the easiest, and it may very well be true, but I would want to know more details on operating costs in the secure part of the airport vs outside the airport before passing judgement.

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Think about jobs that can't easily be automated, and do those. Mining is one area that isn't easily automated, as the equipment is horrendously expensive. Same with any other skilled, physical trade. Manufacturing also pays better than Amazon warehouses in a lot of cases. The biggest downside of NAFTA and other trade deals was shifting the US to being a more service based economy. Service based jobs are most readily replaced by AI and automation.

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I'm not a libertarian, big or small L. I've lived in NH all but 1 year of my life (that year was in California). NH is so great because outside of our small urban areas and the schools, NH is basically 1970s America. It's not because of libertarianism, it's because NH is inherently conservative.

NH has been run by Dem governors only ~34 years of the past 170. It lives in the traditional Republican tradition, and most NH Democrats are blue dog Democrats, regardless of how they vote.

Small government isn't solely a libertarian belief. It's a 18th and 19th century American belief. You don't need a large state government when municipalities make most of the decisions for themselves. You don't need a strong federal government when state governments make decisions for themselves. This isn't libertarianism, it's traditional Americanism.

NH has carried that tradition better than any other state, and it's not because of Libertarians, it's because the founding ethos of NH was to not be Massachusetts. NH is about the town making decisions about the job of the town, the county is to pool resources of towns to do certain limited jobs, and the state is for towns pooling resources together for certain jobs.

NH isn't solely about the individual. It's about the individual working with others in a community (town). We limit state law so individuals can work together in their community to make their community what they want. This is antithetical to Libertarianism, which is why NH works, and sole Libertarian control never will. The housing laws of last year are a perfect example. The NH way is to change state laws to allow regulation changes, based on what the town wants. Forcing zoning law changes state wide, regardless of local sentiment, the Libertarian position, is the opposite, as an example.

Hopefully this clarifies some things. I am a registered Republican. I've voted Republican in state and federal elections. I 90% vote Republican locally.

I understand your point about other states. NH is different, because 400 years ago it was founded differently, and has always been run differently, but please keep in mind why that is, based on history, and not on what the Libertarians take credit for.

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Note how there aren't any in New England. That's because of demand charges for electricity. If that megacharger runs at 1.2 MW for 20 minutes, it would cost $33,600 per month to operate each Megacharger in use at the same time. At current diesel prices, that would buy about 10,000 gallons of diesel per month. That demand charge doesn't include the cost of the electricity used.

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@EricLDaugh You needed an ID to vote for Kamala to be the Presidential nominee since that happened at the DNC convention, so apparently she was elected by Jim Crow 2.0

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@RichardGrenell They also hit the delete button on their nuclear power plants so they can burn coal "for the environment" when the wind doesn't blow. They aren't a serious country anymore.

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@eastdakota John Moses Browning was the greatest firearms designer of all time.

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@PalmerLuckey @AJA_Cortes A lot of people are detached from working poor people, and have become so absorbed in consumerist society that they have no idea what the basics actually cost. That $138k for a couple with 1 kid is fantasy land, and is fueled by consumerism and debt slavery culture.

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@creepydotorg We are the fighting Uruk Hai!

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A) Trump and Bessent haven't been saying "Free Trade" about anything. It was never the plan.
B) Restoring manufacturing to the United States is a national security imperative. Full stop.
C) We are going back to the American System of trade policy. "Free Trade" was a tool to break the USSR. It never actually existed.
D) The Canadian dollar is $.73. That means it's cheaper to build in Canada than the US, which negates point B, as was part of the giant sucking sound of NAFTA.