John Bowman
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Position on Issues
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the “Education Freedom Account” program, which gives students access to the per-pupil share of state school funding to spend on private school or home school expenses?
"Our schools are failing to teach content in favor of emotional wellness and viewpoint indoctrination...Competition, or even the risk of competition, would immediately change this paradigm to a more effective and more ethical practice in our public schools...As it stands now, citizens are unable to challenge unchecked and unwanted radicalim...When I was trained as a teacher 'social engineering' was profoundly unethical."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Abortion should be legal, safe and rare--and not used as contraception...Moreover, it should be viewed in all cases as a tragedy...No woman's life should be ever placed at risk during pregnancy, but statistics show this to be less than 0.5% of cases."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Abortion should be legal, safe and rare--and not used as contraception...Moreover, it should be viewed in all cases as a tragedy...No woman's life should be ever placed at risk during pregnancy, but statistics show this to be less than 0.5% of cases."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the state law that bans teaching certain concepts, such as the idea that people may be "inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously"?
"There is no reason to comment on this patently absurd and criminally racist form of indoctrination...It has no place in our society at all."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"Please refer to NHGOP platform: nhhousegop.com/platform/...I support limited taxation and spending, lesser government intrusion, and a better climate for small businesses and families to exist and thrive in New Hampshire...Also, sales taxes are regressive and hurt lower income people very disproportionately compared to those on whom sales taxes mean very little."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"Please refer to NHGOP platform: nhhousegop.com/platform/...I support limited taxation and spending, lesser government intrusion, and a better climate for small businesses and families to exist and thrive in New Hampshire...Also, sales taxes are regressive and hurt lower income people very disproportionately compared to those on whom sales taxes mean very little."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire add a tax credit for businesses that contribute to student loan repayment for employees?
"The free market should be the deciding agent in how businesses attract employees...Taxpayers should not carry that burden...Student loan forgiveness already exists, selectively and unequally, for people who work for non-profit companies in human services."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"It is a simple and well-documented fact that lower taxes create more GDP and thus higher revenues...As John F Kennedy famously stated, 'A rising tide lifts all boats.'"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"Against"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support giving voters who register without ID on Election Day a ballot that only counts if they return identifying documents to the state before a deadline?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire add a fee or mileage charge for electric vehicle owners to help pay for transportation and/or electric infrastructure?
"Lower taxes, lower regulation, let the market decide when and how people wish to support the electric vehicle industry...If there is insufficient infrastructure, it is because demand is weak...The government does not need to get involved."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"Single family residential zoning is essential to the American Dream of owning your own home in a pleasant and safe environment...It is the greatest incentive for people to strive for economic progress...Anybody of any identity group has the freedom and opportunity to work hard for their long-term prosperity."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire extend the renewable portfolio standard past 2025, requiring public utilities to obtain more than 25% of electricity from renewable energy sources?
"This is demonstrably catastrophic...We need to promote (and incentivize) research and experimentation on renewable energy and not try to jam it into place without the technology or supply chain to make it feasible...We risk a holocaust of human suffering by ignoring simple economic realities...The world relies on fossil fuels up to and until alternate forms of energy actually exist in reliable and effective quantitiles."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Abortion should be legal, safe and rare--and not used as contraception...Moreover, it should be viewed in all cases as a tragedy...No woman's life should be ever placed at risk during pregnancy, but statistics show this to be less than 0.5% of cases."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the option of mail-in ballots for all voters, not just absentees?
"Our system has worked well for many long years...Cheating is the motivation for all-mail-in ballots, not convenience...We used to expect our citizens (and teach our children) to take part in the electoral process, to have a stake in their country's success...Do you remember when "citizenship" grades were exactly 1/2 of your report card?"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support New Hampshire’s current system of public school funding, with about two-thirds of total funding coming from local property taxes?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"Proliferation of gateway drugs has no merit...Basing any kind of state revenue streams on this is a poor idea of a government's duty to its citizens."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"Proliferation of gateway drugs has no merit...Basing any kind of state revenue streams on this is a poor idea of a government's duty to its citizens."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"Proliferation of gateway drugs has no merit...Basing any kind of state revenue streams on this is a poor idea of a government's duty to its citizens."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"Free markets are the best determinants of business success and failure...If a business does not pay well enough to attract workers at any particular job, they will not be competitive...If wage regulations are imposed on them, this wrecks the mechanism and puts government in the position of picking winners and losers...Also there will necessarily be fewer jobs that businesses are able to pay for...This also disproportionately hurts smaller enterprises, the real backbone of our state economy."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should the state permanently increase how much tax revenue it shares with towns and cities every year, beyond public school funding?
"I support very limited tax revenue sharing with towns and cities because the distribution would never be neutrally based but politically motivated and founded on the principle of 'redistribution of wealth'...That smacks of class warfare, and America needs to be done with that disease."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the gradual phase-out of the Interests and Dividends tax?
"Again, please refer to the NHGOP platform...Lowering taxes for individuals as well as businesses incentivizes living, spending, and entrepreneurship in New Hampshire, strengthening our economy and quality of life."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Abortion should be legal, safe and rare--and not used as contraception...Moreover, it should be viewed in all cases as a tragedy...No woman's life should be ever placed at risk during pregnancy, but statistics show this to be less than 0.5% of cases."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"Our Second Amendment rights ensure all of the others...Only a constitutional amendment should be legally sufficient to allow for gun control laws, and those should have a solid base in real impact and not wishfulness...Our worst gun crimes take place in areas where the gun controls are the most stringent."
