The Manchester Free Press

Thursday • January 15 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.III

Manchester, N.H.

Senate Gold Standard – January 18, 2024

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Bill Hearings for Week of January 15, 2024

N.H. Liberty Alliance - Sun, 2024-01-14 17:49 +0000
  • These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
  • Click on the bill number to read the bill.
  • Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 139 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 24 and opposition of 25 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 50 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 13 with 1 being of interest.

Position Bill Title Committee Day Time Room State Analysis
Of Interest HB1667 relative to establishing a department for children, youth, and families. Children and Family Law Tue 1/16 9:45 AM LOB Room 206-208 This bill establishes the department for children, youth and families as a separate state agency responsible for the general supervision and enforcement of all programs and services for children and youths. The bill also transfers all former powers, duties and responsibilities of the department of health and human services, division for children, youth and families and the division of juvenile justice services to the newly established department.
Oppose SB328 relative to deceptive ticket sale practices. Commerce Tue 1/16 9:00 AM SH Room 100 This bill makes the resale of event tickets by a person who is not the venue or an authorized agent of the venue unlawful if it does not meet certain criteria.
Oppose SB519 relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property. Commerce Tue 1/16 9:15 AM SH Room 100 This bill adds evidentiary requirements to evictions based upon renovation and permits a discretionary stay of eviction for up to 6 months.
Oppose SB518 relative to incentivizing landlords to accept housing choice vouchers. Commerce Tue 1/16 9:30 AM SH Room 100 This bill establishes a landlord housing incentive program and fund. This bill makes an appropriation to implement the fund.
Oppose SB366 relative to restricting the purchase of real property on or around military installations. Commerce Tue 1/16 9:45 AM SH Room 100 This bill prohibits the purchase of real property by the People’s Republic of China on or within 10 miles of any military installations or critical infrastructure facilities.
Oppose SB343 relative to school based health services. Education Tue 1/16 9:00 AM LOB Room 101 This bill allows school districts to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center for the purpose of providing services to students beyond the scope of school nursing services.
Support SB374 relative to the licensing of part-time teachers. Education Tue 1/16 9:15 AM LOB Room 101 This bill defines “part-time teacher.”
Support HB1402 establishing a procedure for a high school proficiency exam waiver of mandatory school attendance. Education Tue 1/16 10:00 AM LOB Room 205-207 This bill allows for a student to take and pass a high school proficiency exam so that the student shall no longer be bound by the mandatory school attendance requirements.
Oppose HB1212 relative to eligibility for free school meals. Education Tue 1/16 10:45 AM LOB Room 205-207 This bill increases the eligibility for free school meals to household incomes up to 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines, and provides funding from the education trust fund for the additional costs.
Oppose HB1153 relative to mandatory and elective public school curricula. Education Tue 1/16 1:45 PM LOB Room 205-207 This bill requires mandatory “anti-communist” curricula and establishes elective curricula for public schools.
Oppose SB380 relative to moving the state primary date. Election Law and Municipal Affairs Tue 1/16 9:15 AM LOB Room 103 This bill moves the state primary date to June.
Oppose SB445 establishing a voter-owned elections fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and making an appropriation to the fund. Election Law and Municipal Affairs Tue 1/16 9:45 AM LOB Room 103 This bill establishes a voter owned election fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund.
Support SB446 allowing voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office. Election Law and Municipal Affairs Tue 1/16 10:00 AM LOB Room 103 This bill allows voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office.
Of Interest SB387 relative to a state parks pass pilot program for recovery centers and community health centers. Energy and Natural Resources Tue 1/16 9:30 AM SH Room 103 This bill requires the establishment of a 3-year pilot program for state parks passes for recovery centers and community health centers registered with the department of health and human services.
Oppose HB1184 relative to making an appropriation to the organic certification program. Environment and Agriculture Tue 1/16 10:00 AM LOB Room 301-303 This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets and food for the staffing and funding of the organic certification program.
Oppose HB1618 mandating a cooperative agreement with USDA for “organic” certification. Environment and Agriculture Tue 1/16 11:00 AM LOB Room 301-303 This bill requires the commissioner to hire inspectors and enter into a USDA cooperative agreement.
Support HB1578 relative to organic food certification and labeling. Environment and Agriculture Tue 1/16 11:30 AM LOB Room 301-303 This bill repeals the certification program and the organic processors-handlers certification fund.
Oppose HB1680 relative to prohibiting the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops. Environment and Agriculture Tue 1/16 2:00 PM LOB Room 301-303 This bill prohibits the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops except in certain cases.
Oppose SB348 relative to emergency crop relief. Finance Tue 1/16 1:00 PM SH Room 103 This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets, and food to distribute emergency relief to farmers who suffered crop damage in the unseasonable cold and floods.
Oppose SB494 relative to establishing a farmer assistance fund. Finance Tue 1/16 1:10 PM SH Room 103 This bill establishes the farmer assistance for natural disasters fund and makes an appropriation therefor.
Support HB1127 relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers’ licenses. Transportation Tue 1/16 11:20 AM LOB Room 203 This bill allows individuals with suspended licenses to mow their lawns without penalty and eliminates the requirement that drivers with suspended licenses surrender their licenses to the department of motor vehicles.
Of Interest HB1118 relative to the issuance of drivers’ licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire. Transportation Tue 1/16 1:20 PM LOB Room 203 This bill allows the director of motor vehicles to require nonresident aliens to submit various certifications for drivers license issuance.
Support SB510 relative to sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident. Transportation Tue 1/16 2:15 PM LOB Room 101 This bill eliminates the requirement that a retail motor vehicle dealer submit a form notifying the New Hampshire department of motor vehicles of a sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident.
Support HB1422 relative to the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, communications service tax, and meals and rooms tax. Ways and Means Tue 1/16 10:00 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill reduces the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, and meals and rooms tax. It also reduces and subsequently repeals the communications services tax.
Oppose HB1492 relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax. Ways and Means Tue 1/16 10:30 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill reimplements the interest and dividends tax.
Support HB1533 relative to the safe harbor compensation amount under the business profits tax. Ways and Means Tue 1/16 11:30 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill increases the amount of the safe harbor provision for compensation under the business profits tax and provides for a biennial increase in future years based on the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index.
Support HB1536 relative to increasing the amount of the expense deduction allowed against the business profits tax. Ways and Means Tue 1/16 12:00 PM LOB Room 202-204 This bill increases the amount of the section 179 expense deduction permitted against the business profits tax.
Of Interest HB1241 relative to regulation of money transmitters. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Wed 1/17 10:00 AM LOB Room 302-304 This bill revises the regulation and licensure of money transmitters by the banking department. This bill is a request of the banking department.
Of Interest HB1559 repealing the chapter relative to cash dispensing machines. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Wed 1/17 10:30 AM LOB Room 302-304 This bill repeals RSA 399-F relative to cash dispensing machines. This is a request by the banking department.
Oppose HB1538 relative to credit card late fees and interest. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Wed 1/17 1:45 PM LOB Room 302-304 This bill requires that the total of interest and other charges in a consumer credit transaction shall not exceed the consumer’s total original balance from the credit card sale or loan.
Support HB1633 relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Wed 1/17 2:45 PM LOB Room 302-304 This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor.
Oppose HB1678 establishing a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program. Education Wed 1/17 10:00 AM LOB Room 205-207 This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program.
Support HB1634 relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. Education Wed 1/17 10:45 AM LOB Room 205-207 This bill removes the household income criteria from eligibility requirements for the education freedom account program.
Support HB1677 relative to participation in education freedom accounts based on school or school district proficiency scores. Education Wed 1/17 1:00 PM LOB Room 205-207 This bill extends eligibility for the education freedom account program to students who participated in the program in the preceeding year, students whose enrollment transfer requests were denied, and to students in school districts which performed at 49 percent or below in statewide assessments.
Support HB1665 relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program. Education Wed 1/17 2:30 PM LOB Room 205-207 This bill changes the annual household income limit to qualify for the education freedom account program.
Oppose HB1112 relative to establishing a continuing education requirement regarding human trafficking for individuals licensed by the office of professional licensure and certification. Executive Departments and Administration Wed 1/17 10:45 AM LOB Room 306-308 This bill requires the office of professional licensure and certification to audit compliance by licensees of continuing education requirements and further provides that all boards regulating health professionals shall require each licensee to complete continuing education in human trafficking each renewal cycle.
Support HB1410 relative to certain professional licenses. Executive Departments and Administration Wed 1/17 11:30 AM LOB Room 306-308 This bill repeals the chapter on the board of registration of medical technicians as well as the chapter on medical imaging and radiation therapy. This bill further makes changes to the nurse practice act, including amending the licensure of licensed nursing assistants to a registration process and making changes to the board of nursing.
Oppose HB1394 relative to licensure and regulation of music therapists and making an appropriation therefor. Executive Departments and Administration Wed 1/17 2:00 PM LOB Room 306-308 This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the office of professional licensure and certification. This bill further establishes a new program assistant II position at the office of professional licensure and certification and makes an appropriation to the office of professional licensure and certification.
Oppose SB352 establishing an early detection cancer screening pilot program for active and retired firefighters. Health and Human Services Wed 1/17 9:00 AM LOB Room 101 This bill establishes an early detection cancer screening pilot program in the department of safety, division of fire standards and training and emergency medical services, for retired and full-time active firefighters New Hampshire.
Oppose SB495 relative to certification of alcohol and other drug use treatment facilities. Health and Human Services Wed 1/17 9:15 AM LOB Room 101 This bill provides for certification of substance use treatment programs by the department of health and human services and establishes an office of the behavioral health ombudsman in the department.
Oppose SB500 establishing a primary care provider loan repayment program, and making an appropriation therefor. Health and Human Services Wed 1/17 9:45 AM LOB Room 101 This bill establishes a primary care provider loan repayment program and fund in the department of health and human services and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose.
Oppose SB558 relative to insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption. Health and Human Services Wed 1/17 10:00 AM LOB Room 101 This bill provides insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption.
Oppose HB1002 relative to fees for records under the right-to-know law. Judiciary Wed 1/17 9:00 AM LOB Room 206-208 This bill establishes parameters for when a public body may charge a fee for records provided under RSA 91-A.
Support HB1105 relative to application of a local tax cap. Municipal and County Government Wed 1/17 10:00 AM LOB Room 301-303 This bill provides clarification that all recommended appropriations in the warrant are included when determining the estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year under the local tax cap.
Oppose HB1544 relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness. Municipal and County Government Wed 1/17 11:10 AM LOB Room 301-303 This bill allows public property to be used to aid and shelter the homeless and indemnifies the government units in charge.
Oppose HB1641 relating to requiring large parking lots to have a solar power canopy. Municipal and County Government Wed 1/17 11:50 AM LOB Room 301-303 This bill requires that large parking facilities, whether existing or new, utilize photovoltaic solar canopies over at least 50 percent of the open asphalt surface.
Of Interest HB1124 relative to limiting conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members. Municipal and County Government Wed 1/17 1:30 PM LOB Room 301-303 This bill limits conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members.
Support HB1396 relative to prohibiting municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing. Municipal and County Government Wed 1/17 3:15 PM LOB Room 301-303 This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less.
Of Interest HB1049 relative to the prohibition on overnight mooring of houseboats. Resources, Recreation and Development Wed 1/17 10:00 AM LOB Room 305 This bill repeals a general prohibition for the overnight mooring of houseboats otherwise permitted under RSA 270-A.
Oppose HB1103 relative to revising the penalties of the shoreland protection act. Resources, Recreation and Development Wed 1/17 1:00 PM LOB Room 305 This bill revises the penalties of the shoreland protection act.
Oppose HB1113 relative to shoreland septic systems. Resources, Recreation and Development Wed 1/17 2:00 PM LOB Room 305 This bill modifies requirements for site assessment studies of shoreland septic systems.
Support HB1121 relative to creating certain wetlands permit exemptions after a natural disaster or flooding event. Resources, Recreation and Development Wed 1/17 3:00 PM LOB Room 305 This bill exempts certain land owners from requiring wetlands permits after a natural disaster or flooding event.
Support SB514 relative to the timber tax. Ways and Means Wed 1/17 9:45 AM SH Room 100 This bill increases the amount of wood or wood chips a landowner can use for personal use or for land conservation purposes without being subject to the timber tax.
Of Interest HB1563 relative to the education property tax and the authority of political subdivisions. Ways and Means Wed 1/17 10:00 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill replaces the statewide education property tax with a property tax contribution from political subdivisions based on the state education property tax warrant issued for the tax year beginning April 1, 2024. The bill also restores statutory authority for the determination of education grants for municipalities that tuition students to other institutions.
Of Interest HB1551 relative to distinguishing between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating business profits taxes. Ways and Means Wed 1/17 12:00 PM LOB Room 202-204 This bill directs the state to distinguish between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating the business profits tax and to exclude flow through items on the Schedule K for S corporations from corporate income for purposes of calculating the tax.
Oppose HB1571 relative to requiring insurance coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Thu 1/18 11:15 AM LOB Room 302-304 This bill requires insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes.
Oppose HB1094 relative to insurance coverage for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Thu 1/18 1:15 PM LOB Room 302-304 This bill removes the prospective repeal of a reference to treatments for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders in the requirement for insurance coverage of certain biologically-based mental illnesses.
Oppose HB1296 relative to insurance coverage for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Thu 1/18 1:45 PM LOB Room 302-304 This bill provides that certain insurers that provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations shall not impose co-payments, deductibles, or other cost-sharing requirements.
Support HB1017 relative to duties of county sheriffs and the appointment of special deputy sheriffs. Criminal Justice and Public Safety Thu 1/18 10:30 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill requires county sheriff’s or deputies to have a presence at all federal law enforcement actions in the county. The bill also clarifies the appointment of special deputy sheriffs.
Support HB1026 relative to resisting arrest. Criminal Justice and Public Safety Thu 1/18 11:00 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill establishes an affirmative defense to the crime of resisting arrest that the arrest was unlawful or constitutional.
Support HB1372 relative to prohibiting torture. Criminal Justice and Public Safety Thu 1/18 11:30 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill establishes a criminal prohibition against torture, which is defined as an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon another person within the person’s custody or control, other than the pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions. This bill is intended to supplement the federal law located at 18 U.S.C. sections 2340, 2340A, and 2340B, which apply to torture committed outside of the United States.
Oppose HB1570 relative to administration of school building aid funds by the department of education and making an appropriation therefor. Education Thu 1/18 10:45 AM LOB Room 205-207 This bill transfers moneys from the education trust fund to a new building aid fund. It also directs the department of education to contract with a vendor to conduct a facility assessment of public schools and public chartered schools.
Support HB1546 relative to government purchasing. Executive Departments and Administration Thu 1/18 11:30 AM LOB Room 306-308 This bill prohibits any state, county, or local government entity from contracting with or purchasing goods or services from companies that discriminate in hiring, promotion, or job assignment on the basis of sex, race, sexuality, national origin, ethnicity, or ideology, including but not limited to permitting diversity, equity, and inclusion statements. This bill further provides an enforcement mechanism.
Oppose HB1486 relative to proxy carbon pricing in state procurement. Executive Departments and Administration Thu 1/18 2:00 PM LOB Room 306-308 This bill requires the department of administrative services to consider proxy carbon pricing in transportation costs and building project costs.
Support HB1278 relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis. Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Thu 1/18 9:30 AM LOB Room 210-211 This bill adds debilitating or terminal medical conditions to the qualifying medical conditions for therapeutic cannabis if a health care provider certifies the potential benefit to the patient. The bill also removes certain limitations on a qualifying visiting patient’s access to cannabis.
Support HB1240 relative to eating disorders as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program. Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Thu 1/18 10:00 AM LOB Room 210-211 This bill adds eating disorders as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis.
Support HB1349 relative to generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program. Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Thu 1/18 10:30 AM LOB Room 210-211 This bill adds generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis.
Support HB1350 relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits. Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Thu 1/18 1:00 PM LOB Room 210-211 This bill increases qualifying patients’ limit on possession of therapeutic cannabis from 2 to 4 ounces, and increases the amount they may obtain in a 10-day period from 2 to 4 ounces.
Support HB1231 permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Thu 1/18 2:00 PM LOB Room 210-211 This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
Support SB356 relative to the return of property collected in the course of a police investigation. Judiciary Thu 1/18 1:00 PM SH Room 100 This bill provides for the automatic return of seized property following certain dispositions of criminal cases, subject to certain exceptions.
Oppose HB1072 relative to prohibiting employers from using polygraph testing. Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Thu 1/18 10:15 AM LOB Room 307 This bill prohibits employers from using polygraphs unless the employer is in law enforcement or meets other exceptions.
Oppose HB1110 relative to requiring certain employers to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Thu 1/18 11:00 AM LOB Room 307 This bill requires employers with 25 or more employees to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Oppose HB1226 relative to employment protections for freelance employees. Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Thu 1/18 1:30 PM LOB Room 307 This bill provides comprehensive rights and responsibilities relative to freelance employees and hiring parties.
Support HB1246 relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver. Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Thu 1/18 2:30 PM LOB Room 307 This bill allows employers to pay the weekly or biweekly wages due to employees in gold or silver.
Oppose HB1217 relative to an exception to allow the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges. Criminal Justice and Public Safety Fri 1/19 10:30 AM LOB Room 202-204 This bill allows the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges.
Oppose HB1587 relative to the installation of video surveillance equipment in special education school buses. Criminal Justice and Public Safety Fri 1/19 12:00 PM LOB Room 202-204 This bill requires video surveillance equipment to be installed and operated on all vehicles provided through services related to a student’s IEP. The bill also requires school districts to develop a privacy policy for resulting recordings.

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Secession Airplane Banner Flying Over Merrimack Valley Saturday

Foundation for N.H. Independence - Thu, 2023-05-25 02:34 +0000

On Wednesday morning, NHexit.US announced that local liberty activists in New Hampshire have hired a chartered airplane pilot to fly a pro-independence banner over the three largest cities in the state. Over the past few years, the calls for serious discussions on peaceful separation of New Hampshire from DC and the union have grown dramatically. New Hampshire is already home to the most influential liberty movement in the world.

Notable events since 2021 include:

  • legislation to place an independence referendum on the ballot which was sponsored by nine lawmakers in the New Hampshire House
  • a poll by SurveyUSA finding that almost 100% of NH residents strongly resent the federal government and 29% are ready to secede immediately
  • increasing demands by lawmakers and the centrist governor telling the DC tyrants to back off 
  • An abundance of pro-independence sentiment, including flags for the Granite Republic, hats, T-shirts, books, articles, and podcasts, and even a national anthem

This Saturday, an airplane banner could be added to that list. The tentative plan is for the banner to fly over Nashua, Manchester, and Concord. If you look up while in one of these cities, you just might be able to snap a photo or record a video of the banner. We encourage our readers to post their photos to social media with the tags #NHexit, #secession, and #NHpolitics. 

Additionally, the question of secession will be asked by another highly reputable pollster. The University of New Hampshire is currently conducting a political survey that includes multiple questions related to New Hampshire independence. The results could be published within days or a few weeks. 

 

 

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New Hampshire Survey Shows Disdain For DC, Support For Independence

Foundation for N.H. Independence - Fri, 2022-07-22 02:33 +0000

A recent poll conducted by SurveyUSA on behalf of the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence (FNHI) shows that while the peaceful separation of New Hampshire from the federal government has low support among politicians, it has significant support among registered voters.

According to an overwhelming number of respondents, the people of the United States are getting more and more divided over important issues like LGBT rights, guns, abortion, election integrity, race relations, involvement in foreign wars, climate change, immigration, and so on (91%).  Nearly as many fear that if this trend continues, it will lead to increases in political violence (89%).

Large majorities of respondents agreed that the federal government doesn’t have their best interests in mind (67%); that it violates their rights more than it protects those rights (65%); that it produces laws, regulations, and court rulings that are incompatible with New Hampshire’s culture of freedom (63%); and that its financial decisions and economic regulations hurt our livelihoods, and could lead to inflation and bankruptcy (77%).

In short, 63% of respondents feel that their state can be trusted more than the federal government.

One possible way forward would be for New Hampshire to begin ignoring federal laws and regulations regarding matters reserved to the States by the 10th Amendment. Fewer than half of respondents believe that the federal government should be able to force New Hampshire to follow federal mandates and laws regarding cannabis (27%), medicine (37%), public health (42%), education (41%), welfare (42%, firearms (42%), businesses (38%), and abortion (33%).

This approach, also referred to as ‘nullification’ is common, currently being utilized by dozens of states, and is consistent with the recent enactment of New Hampshire HB 1178, ‘prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms’. 

However, a more comprehensive way forward would be for New Hampshire to reclaim its sovereignty, peacefully separating from the federal government to govern itself as an independent country, an idea that was supported by 29% of respondents and 52% of Republicans. Only 58% of respondents do not support immediate and full secession from the federal government today. More than 2/5 of respondents agreed that the state should be able to do this without securing permission from the federal government (43%). And only 3% of respondents would support the use of military force by the federal government to interfere with such a separation.

Again, while politicians declined to put the question to the people, more than 2/5 of respondents support the idea of placing independence on the ballot (42%) while only 47% currently oppose it.

History is filled with proposals that seemed at first to be politically impossible, but after serious discussion and evolving circumstances, proved to be politically inevitable. To take just one example, shall-issue laws for concealed carry licenses, once viewed as extreme, are now the law in nearly every state. As the results of this poll show, peaceful separation already has more support now than shall-issue laws had in 1990. Today, not only is shall-issue the norm, but 25 states allow their residents to carry concealed guns without even requiring a permit. If New Hampshire independence follows a similar path, it may only be a few short years away from broad adoption. 

The survey also found strong support for independence and extreme discontent with DC politicians among all 8 states polled. In Texas, 90% of Republicans recently endorsed putting secession on the ballot, officially placing the position in their platform. California progressives have a strong independence movement of their own, and surveys show that around half of Californians support or are open to independence from the union. Progressives in Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington also support independence. States like South Carolina, Florida, and many other states have new independence movements that are rapidly growing, as well. 

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Top 100 Reasons New Hampshire Should Be Independent

Foundation for N.H. Independence - Sat, 2021-11-13 01:28 +0000

Over the past few weeks, a group of pro-freedom activists in New Hampshire has been holding informal meetings to brainstorm how to best promote independence in the next legislative session. Predictably, progressive authoritarians have already begun to attack the concepts of independence and liberty. A few conservatives cling to hope that they can fix DC and all 50 states, convince all Democrats to embrace conservative liberty values, and ‘save America’. 

 

I have written dozens of articles, published three books, and produced hundreds of videos making the case for a national divorce from the authoritarians. Here are just 100 reasons why every New Hampshire citizen who supports freedom should support a bill and a ballot referendum on independence from DC. 

 

  1. Without the federal income tax, we’d each save around $25,000/year right off the bat.
  2. The IRS is corrupt, tyrannical, and about to grow by 80,000 employees and billions of dollars. Years ago, they were caught targeting conservatives. Now, they are surely much more polarized and hateful against us. I could live without them.
  3. The ATF is extremely anti-gun. They have been one of the biggest reasons that federal gun control laws have grown increasingly strict. The ATF passes laws and bypasses Congress. Once the murderous criminal, Dave Chipman is confirmed as the new ATF director, things will get much worse. I could live without the ATF. Once we divorce DC by declaring independence from the union, the ATF will no longer have jurisdiction over us. 
  4. The CDC is out of control, and the agency will only ever grow more tyrannical. This was before corona-fascism made the CDC into the most harmful agency to liberty of all 400 illegal executive agencies. By the way, did you know that the CDC took legal ownership over every rental property in the united states?
  5. I don’t trust Joe Biden to run my life or to do anything that could impact me. I have around 28 trillion reasons for distrusting that corrupt, evil, demented sociopath. 
  6. I don’t trust Congress to run my life. They have proven time and again that they support authoritarian socialism. Even with majorities in the House and the Senate and even with Trump in the White House, Congress did nearly nothing to expand liberty. But they did pass many laws that violated my natural rights. 
  7. The federal government benefits from terribly untrustworthy elections, such as the one in 2020. Once HR1 passes into law, all elections in the united states will be required to abide by the same insane rules that caused us all to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
  8. Once HR51 passes into law, DC will be a state, complete with two more hardcore socialist Senators. The Democrats will control the Senate forever.
  9. If you aren’t a big fan of sobriety checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
  10. If you aren’t a big fan of immigration checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded and/or conducted. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
  11.  Local cops only use tanks, drones, BEARcats, and other aggressive military gear against us because the feds give them those toys. Once we cut ties with DC, our local cops will return to their proper role as peace officers instead of acting as soldiers against us.
  12. One of the reasons that Dictator Sununu locked us down and derailed our economy involved pressure and money from DC encouraging him to do so. 
  13. If you don’t like being forced to pay for the DC politicians to wage futile endless wars in dozens of countries all over the world while veterans, women, and babies in our own communities starve on the streets, it means you want to separate from DC. 
  14. If you are ready to give up on the war on drugs and stop sending cops to homes to punish people for consuming a plant, separating from DC is the first step you must take. DC politicians STILL consider cannabis a schedule one top-tier dangerous substance that is 100% illegal to possess. 
  15. Do you love it when cops steal your property (car, house, money, guns, etc.) without convicting you of a crime? Well, federal law allows law enforcement to seize any property that could be involved in a past, present, or even future crime. And the feds have ‘extended’ that authority to state and local cops. Once we sever ties with DC, cops in NH lose the power of civil asset forfeiture.
  16. If you ever wondered why bad cops almost never receive any punishment, you should know that ‘qualified immunity’ is a federal doctrine. Without DC, local cops become much more accountable to their neighbors.
  17. The millions of federal regulations cost businesses over 2 trillion dollars each year in lost productivity. Once we divorce DC, our businesses will truly be able to unleash their creativity, making New Hampshire more prosperous than we could ever imagine.
  18. Who should decide whether NH accepts illegal aliens or Afghan refugees? Biden and Pelosi or our governor and legislature?
  19. Are you tired of being ruled by nine lawyers in long black robes who live in DC and have the power of Gods? If five out of the nine rule a certain way, that becomes the law for all 330,000,000 people in the united states.  
  20. The federal reserve and DC politicians have overseen a decline in 99% of the US dollar’s purchasing power over the past century.
  21. DC politicians have run up a debt of 28 trillion dollars and counting. And they claim that you and I are responsible for it. 
  22. Nearly every politician has ambitions and eventually wishes to be sent to DC. This affects nearly every decision they make. Once DC is no longer in their minds, they will focus on what is most important: you.
  23. Federal law enforcement (including the FBI) have shown themselves to be thoroughly corrupt. Even conservative commentators like Dan Bongino have called for their abolition. A few months ago, the FBI and other federal cops came to New Hampshire and violently kidnapped six of my friends. They are charging them with crimes that could result in them spending the remainder of their lives in federal prison. Their excuse? That my friends committed some victimless crimes by using and selling cryptocurrency. Once we leave DC, that will never happen again. 
  24. Want a suppressor so that you can save your hearing? They are only illegal because the feds prohibit them. Without the feds, NH would be totally free, and you could put a suppressor on your SBR without any worries. 
  25. Are you worried about increasingly strict EPA restrictions on vehicles, houses, and everything else? Once we divorce DC, they will have no jurisdiction over us.
  26. Are you sick of random federal judges issuing injunctions that overrule actual laws passed by Congress or state legislatures? An independent NH would not have to worry one bit about federal judges.
  27. The DC politicians are destroying the once-mighty American military. Their current secretary of defense and commander-in-chief continually insist that the #1 priority for their military is pleasing LGBT individuals. An independent New Hampshire could have a military with a top priority of defending us against hostile militaries. As it should be.
  28. Have you accumulated a respectable net worth? Soon, the federal government will tax your net worth each year in addition to all of the other taxes. 
  29. The US Congress literally does not represent you or me.
  30. The federal government hates you. Especially if you are white. 
  31. Multiple federal court rulings have declared that the first amendment does not protect any speech that is insulting, especially towards a government agent. 
  32. Right now, even policies that you think are set by state lawmakers are really controlled by the feds via extortion. 
  33. If the thought of Pelosi’s Capitol Police Force growing worries you …. You might support NH independence from DC. 
  34. If you would rather have your highway taxes spent on highways … You might be a NHexiter.
  35. Do you think that Facebook and Twitter are too powerful and too damaging to liberty? Federal law grants them effective immunity from lawsuits while also granting them the power to manipulate content. They get to act as both a publisher and a platform, whichever suits them at the moment. 
  36. If you support sound, free-market money like gold and silver (and crypto) ….You already support NHexit. It’s only a matter of time before the feds ban them.
  37. If you are afraid that Donald Trump might become President again …. You just might be a NHexiter.
  38. If you are afraid that Kamala Harris might become President…. You just might be a NHexiter.
  39. If you think that Title IX is a major reason that free speech and due process in colleges were destroyed, you support NHexit.
  40. If you believe that boys should not have a free pass to the girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, you support NH independence. 
  41. If you can’t count the billions of federal laws….you might support independence.
  42. The FDA hurts and kills patients by stifling innovation and preventing people from using medications until the FDA spends decades of time and billions of dollars approving them.
  43. Cutting ties with DC would immediately and drastically cut prices and improve the availability of drugs like epinephrine, insulin, loperamide, and many others. 
  44. DC politicians use the federal department of education to brainwash your children to hate freedom. Once we are independent, that goes away.
  45. The federal government believes that showing online ads to specific cohorts is a crime.
  46. If you are not comfortable with the REAL ID becoming a dystopian federal identification card, you might be an NHexit supporter.  
  47. Support in Congress for a magazine ban is getting very close to a majority. In a few years, your magazines will be federally illegal. 
  48. Once HR127 passes Congress, every firearm will be effectively illegal. Hope you’re ready to turn in your guns to the feds! You are a patriot and not a criminal, so you’d never violate federal law, right? 
  49. It is very likely that Congress (or federal regulators) ban armor plates for all civilians very soon. Hope you’re ready to turn in your plates!
  50. Even the best ‘conservatives’ in DC are working with Bloomberg to take away your guns.
  51. Technically speaking…the federal government should not exist anymore. 
  52. Federal judges have ruled that police have no legal obligation to protect you. 
  53. The federal government thinks it can take your property by force, as long as it plans to use the property for anything that could benefit the government, including giving your property to companies like Pfizer. Without DC, states and localities have no power of eminent domain (AKA theft of property).
  54. Federal politicians from Biden to McConnell and everyone in between consistently sell us out to oligarchs like Putin and Xi to enrich themselves. 
  55. We can’t take power back from Congress, even with a Convention of States.
  56. The DC politicians incentivize single motherhood and discourage employment. 
  57. If you don’t believe that global warming is the biggest threat to our lives, you should not be in the same union as DC, the federal government, and the other states. 
  58. If you don’t appreciate being spied on by the NSA and other creepy DC agents and politicians, you should consider divorcing them. 
  59. If you don’t want to support the Taliban by providing them with money and military weapons and helicopters, you should leave the union and stop paying federal taxes. 
  60. The federal government considers people guilty until proven innocent – the opposite of how it was supposed to be. Peaceful protesters have been receiving punishments in prison for months despite never being convicted. If you support due process, you support NHexit.
  61. The federal TSA regularly violates our natural rights, despite literally missing 95% of actual threats. 
  62. DC politicians maintain a horrifically managed ‘no-fly list’, which mistakenly puts many people (including babies) onto the list, preventing them from flying. It’s also nearly impossible to get off of the list. 
  63. Conservatives from Candace Owens to Matt Walsh have spoken in support of state independence from DC. 
  64. Federal government leaders believe that if you don’t wear all the masks they recommend and if you don’t get all of the vaccines they recommend, you are just like the Taliban suicide bombers. 
  65. DC politicians prohibit beneficial pipelines that would have been amazing for our national security and economy while simultaneously supporting pipelines for nations that are hostile to us. 
  66. Who is arming the violent Mexican drug cartels? Federal agents from DC!
  67. The federal government has kidnapped innocent Japanese people and put them in concentration camps. New Hampshire has never done that. And they couldn’t ever do that. Because we all have lots of guns. 
  68. The US government banned firearms and ammunition from Russia. New Hampshire would never do that.
  69. The US government puts many kids in cages at the border. New Hampshire would handle immigration in a much more sensible and humane way. 
  70. Things will literally never change for the better. Even with Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling Congress and the SCOTUS, freedom only diminished and tyranny continued to grow.
  71. New Hampshire citizens are the hardest workers and earn the most money, which is demonstrated by our continent-leading median household income. We don’t need DC politicians to be wealthy.
  72. New Hampshire is the freest state. Nearly all of our issues are caused by federal laws. Once we are independent, we will be almost 100% free to live as we please!
  73. New Hampshire is the safest state. We don’t need DC or other states bringing violence to our peaceful paradise. 
  74. Half of the people in the united states believe that Biden was legitimately elected and that Republicans are all traitors, while the other half believes that Biden lost the election and progressives are traitors. How could one country be united if its people hate each other so much? 
  75. The DC politicians now feel so entitled to infinite power that they essentially ban medications that could help treat COVID, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. 
  76. DC politicians are so arrogant that they no longer feel the need to pass legislation in Congress; they now use executive orders to pass new laws, including the most recent one forcing all private companies in the united states with over 100 employees to vaccinate their employees or test them for COVID weekly. This will affect 80 million employees. If you don’t want DC sociopaths coming between you and your employer (or you and your doctor), you support independence. 
  77. When conservative states began having success treating COVID with monoclonal antibodies Biden and DC politicians began to BLOCK the life-saving treatments from getting to pro-freedom anti-Biden states like Alabama and Florida, potentially causing people to die.
  78. DC politicians have made it clear that they will continue to prioritize foreign nationals and illegal immigrants over American citizens like you and me.
  79. On the other hand, DC politicians have made it very clear that Cuban immigrants are not welcome here (because they tend to vote for freedom and against communism). 
  80. The Biden IRS is now going to monitor every bank account with over $600 in it so that they can tax all people who make any money in any way. Those who receive more than $600 in PayPal transactions in a year will also be subject to taxation, according to experts. Peaceful separation solves this IRS issue because the IRS would no longer have any jurisdiction over us. 
  81. When NH adopted federal food laws, it made selling mushrooms illegal, among many other prohibitions. Now, the only way to make it legal for anyone in NH to sell mushrooms is to create more regulation requiring ‘licenses’, which is somewhat counterproductive. The only other way to make mushrooms legal in NH would be to sever ties with DC. 
  82. Dictator Biden nominated an actual Soviet communist to be the comptroller of the currency. If you don’t want your country’s financial system to be run by an avowed communist, you support separation from DC.  
  83. On 10/8/21, the preliminary deal on a GLOBAL tax on businesses was officially agreed to. A total of 136 countries have signed onto the measure, guaranteeing that they will work together to stomp out businesses seeking to evade taxes by implementing at least a 15% tax on them, no matter where they come from. Once New Hampshire becomes a self-governing state, its low (or absent) tax on business could attract so much business to the state that it could cause the biggest economic boom in world history. 
  84. Dictator Biden’s OSHA implemented a vaccine mandate for nearly every worker in the united states. It is extremely unlikely that an individual could beat this in federal courts or via federal legislation. Separating from the union is actually the more practical way to nullify this mandate. 
  85. A federal law to require all new cars to have passive drunk-driving monitoring technology is about to go into effect, making all cars in the united states more expensive and much more intrusive. The law does not specify, but the new technology may be tantamount to perpetual breathalyzers and/or eye monitoring in every car. 
  86. The medical system and all medical institutions in the united states are becoming increasingly racist towards whites, and it all starts with DC politicians. 
  87. The Supreme Court is composed of 9 judges. The SCOTUS is perhaps the most powerful entity in the united states now. These nine judges are either evil or mentally retarded. They certainly do not believe in freedom. Is that who you want to be ruled by?
  88. The US House of Representatives passed legislation that would take over control of elections, taking the power that always resided with the states and granting it to DC politicians. Among the many measures in the legislative package was a law that prohibited any election in the united states from requiring ID in order to vote. New Hampshire citizens who would like to retain their voter ID law must either support secession or give up voter ID forever once this federal law passes. 
  89. DC politicians just passed a law mandating that all vehicles made after 2026 be equipped with perpetual monitoring systems to detect ‘impaired driving’. The vehicles must also have ‘kill switches’ that allow cops to turn them off at any moment. If you don’t like this policy, secession is the only solution. 
  90. In the summer of 2022, federal government will begin to require facial recognition/uploading pictures of your face in order to access tax/ documents on the IRS website.
  91. The President announced that the next US Supreme Court Judge he nominates will be a black woman. Upon joining the court, she will likely hear a massively important case involving ‘affirmative action’.
  92. DC politicians are literally stealing our organs. In 2021, a policy change at UNOS essentially caused nearly all organs from donors in New Hampshire to be sent to NYC, CT, and MA, harming New Hampshire’s patients who desperately need organs to live. DC is viciously fighting NH legislation that would allow Granite Staters to state their preference that their neighbors be granted priority over foreigners if they pass away with viable organs. 
  93. The brilliant experts in DC are using $30,000,000 in taxpayer funds to give out drug paraphernalia, including crack pipes, to drug users. The statement from the DC politicians specifically mentioned that they are being distributed primarily to minorities and that they are to be used for illegal drugs. 
  94. Our Lords in DC believe that they must force New Hampshire to build more housing projects so that our state could look more like the Bronx.  
  95. Our brilliant Lords in DC are destroying our savings and devaluing our salaries by printing so much money that annual inflation is now at a frightening 9.1% annual rate.
  96. DC politicians have been forcing you and me to pay for dangerous bioweapons labs in Ukraine for years. 
  97. Your federal tax dollars are being used to pay Tik Tok influencers to create and promote propaganda approved by Dictator Biden. If you don’t want to be forced to fund such endeavors, you may want to consider secession. 
  98. If you don’t enjoy paying $6 billion for the annual NIAID budget doled out by Anthony Fauci to fund foreign bioweapons labs and development and approval of ludicrously expensive patented pharmaceuticals and suppress use of cheap off-patent drug, you should consider supporting a vote of NH residents to leave the union.
  99. The federal government violates free speech in numerous ways. Leaving their jurisdiction solves these issues and restores freedom of speech, expression, press, association, and worship. 
  100. The federal government is increasingly racist. Most recently, Dictator Biden nominated a black woman to be a judge on the highest court because of her gender and skin color. Ironically, she will likely soon be ruling on an affirmative action case. 

 

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