Kat McGhee

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?

"This program had a public push back of over 6-1 in public hearings, to the point where the folks who were insistent on doing it stopped the hearings and simply pushed the law through in the budget trailer without even tax impact cost estimates. That's not how we're supposed to do things. This program was sold to people as 'choice' but it is a scam to defund public schools and create for-profit recipients who have none of the requirements for education standards we require of our public schools. It will only weaken schools, discourage good teachers from working in NH, and increase property taxes because there is still not plan, to add proper school funding from the state. Only to take funding away."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?

"Roe v Wade was the compromise that put women and doctors in the correct roles, allowing legal abortions up to viability of the fetus, unless the life of the mother was threatened. The recent push to move American society backwards is completely unworkable and does nothing to improve any aspect of this long-settled privacy battle. It does not reflect New Hampshire's Live Free or Die sentiment."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?

"Roe v Wade was the compromise that put women and doctors in the correct roles, allowing legal abortions up to viability of the fetus, unless the life of the mother was threatened. The recent push to move American society backwards is completely unworkable and does nothing to improve any aspect of this long-settled privacy battle. It does not reflect New Hampshire's Live Free or Die sentiment."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should NH add an income tax on earned income?

"I'm not in favor of an income tax. We are creating problems for seniors on fixed incomes by placing so much burden on property taxes. So, there must be discussion about the best way to meet our bills, the GOP method of promising to cut our way to prosperity is simply disingenuous."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?

"New Hampshire's advantage is that we keep our broad based taxes low. We have many ways to pay the bills without adopting sales taxes beyond what we do now for things like Rooms and Meals."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?

"Business tax cuts are not what businesses are asking for from government. So no, I'd rather see us focused on making sure students are training to meet the workforce needs in the state so we can grow our energy, technology, and manufacturing economies."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?

"There is an issue with our tax system being regressive at this point - meaning the lower income brackets pay higher rates than the wealthy who build their homes here. Fairer taxes is a goal of Democrats. But even discussing the issue brings calls of foul from our opponents. So we keep digging a bigger hole."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?

"We're doing less than the bare minimum because we're continually undermining existing working programs, and then pulling off emergency fixes. It is absolutely the role of government to help make the transition less painful for ratepayers and farmers and everyone else who relies on us to do what is right."

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?

"I think it's unecessarily cumbersome. But, if the state determines that this is what is needed in order to provide a process that satisfied trust in our election integrity, then I would support it."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?

"I have constituents who are against encouraging housing because they want to protect 'local, rural character'. In my view, local planning and zoning boards and master plans are the place to make those decisions. The issue NH is facing is one a 20-30K unit deficit in housing. That lack of supply creates difficulties for employers, employees, young families and seniors. Nobody can find affordable housing because there is so little housing stock. So yes, I'm for addressing that very real problem that holds back NH's economy. I am not for overbuilding and ruining places with housing that makes no sense. Both can be accomplished if we elect people who are trying to solve both."

Voting Record, 2024

Voted to increase the maximum electric generating capacity to participate in net energy metering, from one to five megawatts (HB 523)

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?

"Roe v Wade was the compromise that put women and doctors in the correct roles, allowing legal abortions up to viability of the fetus, unless the life of the mother was threatened. The recent push to move American society backwards is completely unworkable and does nothing to improve any aspect of this long-settled privacy battle. It does not reflect New Hampshire's Live Free or Die sentiment."

Voting Record, 2024

Voted to consider starting a Child Care Workforce Fund to recruit and retain New Hampshire child care employees (HB 1611)

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?

"The system is unfair and advantages property rich communities, while penalizing poor property towns. The state has been successfully sued on multiple occasions for ignoring its constitutional responsibility to educate its citizens. The most recent decisions stated, that obligation is not on the property tax payer, it is on the state'."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?

"It depends upon the bill."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?

"It depends upon the bill."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?

"It depends upon the bill."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?

"Yes. The argument seems to be that we don't have to do anything on support for a living wage. I disagree. There is data to show what businesses are paying in order to attract workers. It has been decades at the current federal rate of $7.25 per hour. Its time we increased it to something more reflective of the reality of cost of living in 2022."

Voting Record, 2024

Voted for HB 368, a bill that would provide various legal protections for persons receiving gender-related health care. For example, HB 368 would prohibit New Hampshire from enforcing an order from another state to remove a child from a home based on a parent allowing their child to receive gender-affirming health care.

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?

"Roe v Wade was the compromise that put women and doctors in the correct roles, allowing legal abortions up to viability of the fetus, unless the life of the mother was threatened. The recent push to move American society backwards is completely unworkable and does nothing to improve any aspect of this long-settled privacy battle. It does not reflect New Hampshire's Live Free or Die sentiment."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2018

Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?

When asked a similar question on the 2018 Citizens Count survey, McGhee indicated, "I oppose increased state enforcement of federal immigration laws."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022

Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?

"I don't think stricter gun laws is the right frame. I believe laws that increase public safety are not an infringement upon lawful gun ownership. It is not the job of lawmakers to impose their own ideology. It is the role of lawmakers to inform themselves with the best available evidence and then pass laws that work for the majority of people."