Lucius Parshall
Serving as: NH House Cheshire County District 08
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?
"I support repealing this unsupervised drain on our state coffers."
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
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Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"Devil in the details. NH needs additional revenue, and current property taxes are acting more like a wealth tax. Any additional tax levies should correspond to property tax reduction."
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Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"Devil in the details. NH needs additional revenue, and current property taxes are acting more like a wealth tax. Any additional tax levies should correspond to property tax reduction."
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Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"While small business in NH benefit from our 7.5% flat rate, we are attracting larger businesses that are using NH law to evade their fair share of taxes. I am in favor of a graduated rate business tax."
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Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"We need to repeal the interest and dividend tax, period."
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Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"We need to get our politicians out of the pockets of big oil."
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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?
"Voter suppression is real, and those that are complaining the most about it continue to support repressive registration laws, bad gerrymandering and illegal candidates for office, as is easily documented by the NH press."
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Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"For"
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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?
"I have sponsored bills to expand net metering, and I hope that someday one of them will be adopted."
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Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
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Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"For"
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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?
"The state needs to do more to equalize budgets and provide a good education for all students, regardless of location."
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"We need to insure availability, affordability and product safety. This is a job of the state, and additionally, if the state were to benefit from additional revenue to wouldn't hurt. We do need to better regulate the industry better than we have regulated the state lottery."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"We need to insure availability, affordability and product safety. This is a job of the state, and additionally, if the state were to benefit from additional revenue to wouldn't hurt. We do need to better regulate the industry better than we have regulated the state lottery."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"We need to insure availability, affordability and product safety. This is a job of the state, and additionally, if the state were to benefit from additional revenue to wouldn't hurt. We do need to better regulate the industry better than we have regulated the state lottery."
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Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"People that can't afford to live here won't be able to work here."
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Should New Hampshire add legal protections for residents of other states who travel here for health care related to abortion or gender transition?
"For"
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Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
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Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"There needs to be clear definition between local enforcement and federal enforcement. "
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Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"We don't need instant availability of guns, or the proliferation of semi-automatic weapons. Sadly, our best allies should be sports hunters, but they have been whipped into a frenzy by a too powerful gun lobby."
