Common Sense For New Hampshire

We hear the term “shared sacrifice” used to argue that the public workers should accept something less than the luxuriant pensions and health care plans that have been promised them.  I support the concept of shared sacrifice too, but the problem is that one side (we taxpayers) is already sacrificing and the other side (public workers) presently […]

In the print edition of today’s Coast Star (they’ve already corrected the online edition) the outrageous suggestion that the police be required to write enough tickets to cover their salaries (500 per year) is accidentally attributed to me instead of Neil Scheck.  Anyone who knows me knows I find the whole idea of ticket quotas […]

So our masters in Trenton have ordered us to increase the pay for our police by 15% over five years.  As Mayor Pringle pointed out in Wednesday night’s council meeting,  that will use up the lion’s share of the 2% property tax increase allowed by the state.  There will have to be cutbacks and possibly […]

Bastiat on “The seen and the unseen”  In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not […]

“Think before tanning” Here at the shore we should all be aware that skin cancer is a serious, deadly problem. Legislation intended to stop children from using tanning salons is being sponsored by Mary Pat Angelini, a Republican, and Loretta Weinberg, a Democrat. This measure will prevent disease and save lives and deserves everyone’s support. […]