Julie Miles
Serving as: NH House Hillsborough County District 12
Completed our 2024 State Candidate Survey
Position on Issues
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
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?
"This program is a good concept, and can always be improved, and should be monitored for efficacy and results and changed accordingly once more data has been obtained."
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"In New Hampshire, abortion is legal for any reason during the first six months of pregnancy. Some people are pushing for taxpayer-funded elective abortions up until the moment of birth. I will support the current law, which over 70% of Granite Staters agree with, while others will continue to push extreme laws, I will not. This is a very private issue, and should stay that way with minimal government interference and the current NH law should be protected."
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"In New Hampshire, abortion is legal for any reason during the first six months of pregnancy. Some people are pushing for taxpayer-funded elective abortions up until the moment of birth. I will support the current law, which over 70% of Granite Staters agree with, while others will continue to push extreme laws, I will not. This is a very private issue, and should stay that way with minimal government interference and the current NH law should be protected."
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Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"I will never support a broad based tax such as a sales or income tax or a similar burdensome tax on the people of NH. We need to cut the costs of living, not increase them."
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Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"I will never support a broad based tax such as a sales or income tax or a similar burdensome tax on the people of NH. We need to cut the costs of living, not increase them."
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Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"I support making it easier to do business in NH. NH is consistently rated one of the best places to open and run a business in the country, and our low tax rates on businesses helps bring jobs to our state. And people need good high paying jobs. And I support small businesses, which provide 80% of our work force jobs."
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Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"I will never support a new tax on capital gains or a similar burdensome tax on the people of NH. We need to cut the costs of living, not increase them. Many elderly and retired plan on sale of property or investment and the income they yield and should not be further taxed on these hard earned gains."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"This depends on the specific means by which we address climate change. I would carefully evaluate any such proposed legislation for efficacy and short and long term costs and benefits to the taxpayer."
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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?
"Voters should be required to present valid ID in person, on Election Day at the polling station in order to vote."
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Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"There is a balance to be struck between local control and government obstructing progress. Local control in NH is paramount and Towns and Cities should ultimately decide their own zoning laws, with the State Government setting up enabling legislation making it easy for localities to do so, such as removing barriers to development, should the local legislative body desire to make it easy to add rental units, or not, its their decision ,locally depending on the needs of a given Town."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support legislation to expand the net energy metering system capacity cap from 1 MW to 5 MW for all residential and commercial customers in New Hampshire?
"This legislation has come to the House several times. It will depend on the specific language the next time it is presented, the state of the budget at the time, the amount of credits being offered to the consumers, and a number of other factors."
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Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"In New Hampshire, abortion is legal for any reason during the first six months of pregnancy. Some people are pushing for taxpayer-funded elective abortions up until the moment of birth. I will support the current law, which over 70% of Granite Staters agree with, while others will continue to push extreme laws, I will not. This is a very private issue, and should stay that way with minimal government interference and the current NH law should be protected."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"Possibly, yes. Ultimately the market should decide how to fund childcare. And parents need to work. But our state budget must be balanced too. The state needs to support child care when the workforce needs to work and not stay home just to care for children. This answer really depends upon the mechanism of the funding and the state of revenues at the time. I would not support new taxes to accomplish broad funding for child care."
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Do you support New Hampshire’s current system of public school funding, with about two-thirds of total funding coming from local property taxes?
"Education quality is a top priority and delivering quality results for our students and parents must happen. 80-90% of students and parents rely on public schools as the education system of choice, and the system should be supported accordingly. And local control has been the method of choice with the state mandated by historical court decisions to adhere to a minimum standard of funding."
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"For"
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"Against"
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"Against"
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Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"The market should decide on the best wages to be paid to workers, not the government. 90% or more of the available jobs are much higher than minimum wages set by the government. In states where the government has interfered with employers and dictated what they must pay in wages, then benefits and available hours and total jobs have been lost, so it doesn't work. And it discourages entrepreneurship. NH has a huge number of small businesses fueling our economy, and government interference would stifle that."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add legal protections for residents of other states who travel here for health care related to abortion or gender transition?
"I would have to see the specific legislation and how it might relate to similar laws passed for other interstate travel. A variety of US Constitutional protections already exist for interstate travel and these may or may not be necessary, so the language of any proposed bill would be critical to review. Many healthcare procedures are already protected by Privacy laws and healthcare documentation and provider confidentiality laws."
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Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"In New Hampshire, abortion is legal for any reason during the first six months of pregnancy. Some people are pushing for taxpayer-funded elective abortions up until the moment of birth. I will support the current law, which over 70% of Granite Staters agree with, while others will continue to push extreme laws, I will not. This is a very private issue, and should stay that way with minimal government interference and the current NH law should be protected."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"The border crisis is at our doorstep, and I support local law enforcement doing their jobs and providing them the tools they need to protect our communities and keep us safe from drugs coming across our NH borders and from criminals being harbored in our neighborhoods. And I reject sanctuary city policies."
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Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"The US and NH Constitution provide for the Right to Keep and Bear arms in self defense and those shall not be infringed."
