{"id":1109,"date":"2010-04-29T23:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T04:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2017-12-18T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:26:40","slug":"can-nh-afford-this-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/04\/29\/can-nh-afford-this-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Can NH Afford This Legislature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the Union Leader we learned:<\/p>\n<p><em>CONCORD \u2013 The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday voted to pass a raft of taxes that raise nearly $80 million on everything from pet shop licenses to capital gains.<\/p>\n<p>With the Legislature struggling to close a projected $220 million budget gap, Ways and Means Chair Rep. Susan Almy, D-Lebanon, said the committee &#8220;is trying to bring forward as many options as are viable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Almy, a wealthy transplant from New York, donated $65,000 to liberal causes last year. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Governor Lynch cannot rein in this renegade legislature, he doesn&#8217;t deserve a fourth term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Union Leader we learned: CONCORD \u2013 The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday voted to pass a raft of taxes that raise nearly $80 million on everything from pet shop licenses to capital gains. With the Legislature struggling to close a projected $220 million budget gap, Ways and Means Chair Rep. Susan Almy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,71,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-broadbased","category-governor-watch","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}