The big thing New Hampshire has going for it is that due to decades of liberal rule all poor people and almost all of their own young people have been driven out by the very high cost of living.

What state are you talking about? New Hampshire was, for DECADES, a bastion of Republican governance and conservatism. Occasionally a Democrat would win the governorship for a little while, but the legislature and the Executive Council were solidly Republican for years and years. The Democrats have only held the reins of power since 2006.

New Hampshire has NO sales tax, NO income tax, and some of the lowest state spending levels in the nation. We pay our legislators $100.00 per YEAR for their jobs, so they can’t afford to sit around and pass new laws and new taxes. And there’s a fairly regularly recurring push to put up a fence along our southern border and keep the Massholes out.

Mr. Howard, you might want to clarify your remarks. I don’t think you said what you meant to say.

J.

When liberals take over a place they take pride in ’stopping growth’, which means their kids have to move somewhere else, and poor people need not apply.

[Editor ---I can tell you where they're not --- New Hampshire, where they comprise only 2.04% of the population.]

Oh, and now we can add a silver in the “healthiest state” category. They released that one today, and we’re #2.

You’re quite right about how things would be if we had “millions of illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, human sex/slave traffickers, gang-bangers, and terrorists sneaking across their borders every year.” For one thing, they’d outnumber us — we only have about 1.2 million residents already.

J.