Robert A. Daniel

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire ban abortion after 24 weeks gestation, with exceptions for cases of rape/incest and health complications?

"Abortion is made complicated by the nature of fetal development. So generally it should be a private choice. But there is a strong case to be made that late fetal development is complete human life. I completely oppose criminalizing abortion earlier than 24 weeks for the converse reason."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should NH add an income tax on earned income?

"Against"

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?

"Against"

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?

"Businesses are the source of our jobs as well as the vital goods and services we need. The few of us who engage is business should have every support, not be punished for their trouble."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?

"Against"

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire increase the tax on cigarettes?

"A cigarette, though unhealthy, generates business revenue as any other product. Taxes kill jobs."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire add restrictions to the governor's powers during a state of emergency?

"For"

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire extend the renewable portfolio standard past 2025, requiring public utilities to obtain more than 25% of electricity from renewable energy sources?

"Politicians have rarely if ever done any good by meddling in businesses in which they are not knowledgeable."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire increase public access to reports of police misconduct?

"There is every reason to allow the public access to information which allows citizen oversight and NO reason not to. To criminals we say 'don't do the crime if you can't do the time.' Civilians have no such protection of privacy of their criminal records. Then if the very people who are in the position of responsibility to enforce our laws transgress, the same logic applies even more because of their unique level of responsibility. Transgress, expect the public to know about it."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Do you support the option of mail-in ballots for all voters, not just absentees?

"As long as it remains an option and there is absolute transparency and unrestricted freedom of public oversight in the counting of those ballots."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should NH legalize the recreational use of marijuana?

"Drug use is a personal choice and should be entirely decriminalized."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?

"There is ample evidence from professional studies that a minimum wage reduces employment."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire increase the size of solar panel installations that may participate in net energy metering?

"There should be no restrictions at all."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire increase subsidies and tax credits for business investment?

"Tax credits yes, subsidies no. These two policies in fact contradict one another since subsidies must necessarily be paid for either by taxes or by borrowing, both of which strifle investment."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire increase the base amount of per-pupil funding it provides to local school districts?

"Private sector options have proven to be better for students as well as much lower in cost to run. We don't need to continue obsessing over our public schools. We need to work towards freedom of educational choice."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Do you support Gov. Sununu's proposal to allow employers and employees to opt-in to a private, paid family and medical leave insurance plan, based on a pool of state employees, excluding coverage for personal illness?

"We do not need the government to create such schemes. This can be done by citizens privately to the extent that there is interest in it."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire continue to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which requires utilities to purchase allowances for every ton of carbon they emit?

"Against"

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire create a road usage fee?

"Road construction and maintenance should be a private entrepreneurial affair just like anything else. Private sector fees for use yes, government, no."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire create a statewide family and medical leave program, paid for with a percentage of employee wages, with no opt-out?

"One person's desires must never be an imposition on another person by force. This scheme can be created privately to the extent that there is interest."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?

"Ample evidence shows that open carry and conceal carry areas are safer. New Hampshire is a consistent example of this. Check it's liberality with fire arms possession against it's rate of gun homicide."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire provide student loan debt repayment programs for workers in industries with labor shortages?

"Student loans would not have become the burden that they are had government not meddled in the market for loans in the first place."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire add tax incentives for affordable housing development?

"The general practice of giving Tax incentives actually validates taxation itself. The best tax policy to stimulate business activity is to not tax businesses in the first place. The best way to clear the path to affordable housing is to repeal the mountain of regulations and demands which government has placed on private construction and landlords."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020

Should New Hampshire allocate tax revenues for private and home schooling costs?

"New Hampshire should implement educational credits, allow tax paying parents to direct the state portion of their school taxes to their choice of options, with the sole exception of religious schools as that would violate the letter of the state constitution."