Your Budget. Your Future.
New Hampshire Republicans have run up the tab, and they are driving up your property taxes to pay the bill.
Kelly Ayotte signed a Republican state budget that raises costs on hardworking Granite Staters and threatens the health, safety, and well-being of our communities.
For months, Granite Staters have made it clear that they want a state budget that makes housing more affordable, lowers health care costs, invests in public safety and public education, and helps address the skyrocketing property taxes that are forcing people out of their communities.
Kelly Ayotte and her Republican majorities not only failed to accomplish those priorities for Granite Staters, but they created a budget that defunds affordable housing programs, raises health care costs, underfunds public safety, raises in-state tuition, and forces communities to pay even higher property taxes. Meanwhile, Kelly Ayotte and Republicans approved a plan to spend nearly $100 million in taxpayer dollars to fund a private school voucher scheme that directly benefits the ultra-wealthy.
Kelly Ayotte’s budget offers no relief to the economic pain Granite Staters are feeling and makes no investments in the future of our state.
Learn more about how the budget will increase your costs.
GRANITE STATE TESTIMONIALS
Hear from fellow Granite Staters who are feeling the impact of reckless budget cuts firsthand. Interested in sharing your story? Submit your testimonial here.
Brie Choate of Pike, NH
“Now, with the looming federal Medicaid cuts, we worry that the added NH state-level budget cuts will leave us again without access to preventative care or an affordable emergency room visit should anything happen to us working a manual labor trade. […]We worry that in 25 years, our fixed income will not be enough to retire on and stay in our home as property taxes go through the roof from the constant cost squeezing of the working class making less than $60,000 per year while the wealthy don’t pay taxes on income from their investments. We want healthcare, housing, education for our children, and equitable living for all NH communities. We desperately need working-class representation that will propose a budget that is not tone-deaf and completely out of touch with NH families’ issues.”
Resident of Nashua, NH
“Our state university system is a gem that needs to continue to be funded. As a student at UNH, my son worked in a lab for four years doing cancer research. At any other school, he would have had one or two years of research experience, not four. He now wants to stay in NH to work as a surgeon in emergency medicine someday. The state university system kept him and his generation of entrepreneurs, business owners, doctors, and nurses in our state. New York has free in-state tuition. They do this to keep their next generation of talent in NY. We’re planning to make draconian cuts to our colleges and universities that will result in not attracting the next generation to our state. The results will be devastating for NH, with our highest income earners leaving our state for those that fund their university systems. The ripple effect will be seen throughout NH’s economy. Please keep them funded.”
Learn more about what's in Kelly Ayotte's budget here.
BUDGET UPDATES
Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the Republican state budget which took effect on July 1st. Learn more about how much the budget will cost your family
How did we get here?
New Hampshire Republicans have spent nearly a decade pushing fiscally irresponsible policies that have bailed out large, out of state corporations, downshifted costs onto communities, increased property taxes, and created a massive revenue shortfall that will ultimately hurt working families and small businesses the most.
We know this because we’ve seen it before – in 2011, the last time Republicans in New Hampshire held a super majority in the legislature, they cut funding for public education, retirement benefits for first responders, and services for the developmentally disabled. Granite Staters are still suffering from those cuts today.
The budget comes as Granite Staters are already struggling with a housing crisis, childcare crisis, and high property taxes.
New Hampshire Republicans have run up the tab and now they are passing the bill on to you.
The New Hampshire Advantage no longer benefits hardworking Granite Staters, families, individuals, and small businesses who will bear the brunt of Republicans’ budget cuts.
