New Hampshire policy, followed through to the outcome.
Issue
Whether households can meet the costs they actually face. Not one issue: housing, taxes, energy, healthcare and childcare have different causes and different levels of government responsible for them.
When government imposes additional costs on a business, politicians frequently discuss competitiveness, investment, employment and economic growth. When government imposes additional costs on someone poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, lawmakers defending the policy call it personal responsibility.
When lawmakers wrote the 2025 state budget, they created new premiums for some people receiving Medicaid. Those premiums are expected to bring millions of dollars into the state’s healthcare financing system and General Fund.
Two towns can need the same money per student and set very different tax rates, because the property standing behind each student is different.
A development model for privately owned cottage communities of 15 to 30 small homes on shared land and shared infrastructure, with a worked cost breakdown.
