Stephen Scaer
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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?
"Public schools are religious schools with the established church of transgenderism. Parents need options to keep their children safe from a cult that teaches that children can be born in the wrong bodies and need to be reshaped with chemicals and knives to be their authentic selves. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Life begins at conception and has inherent value."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Life begins at conception and has inherent value."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3?
"Transgenderism is a religion that teaches we have gendered souls, or authentic selves, manifested by gender stereotypes like toys, clothing styles and hair length, and that it's essential to medicalize the body to match the self. This isn't science; children diagnose themselves. How? According to Social Emotional Learning materials 'The answer is astonishingly simple: They just know.' Girls, especially those with autism, are getting caught up in the transgender craze, and being irreversibly harmed and sterilized. There is a detransitioners subreddit with 38,000 members describing lives of pain and regret. Gender ideology has no place in public schools. While everyone should live and love as he or she pleases, discussions of LGB issues speak to sexual desire and shouldn't be part of the curriculum."
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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"?
"Critical theory is an ideology that limits free thinking and free speech. CT assumes every disparity in success or well-being is a result of an unmeasurable systemic racism that can be cured only through discrimination and the forceable redistribution of wealth and power. It shuts down discussions about the role of other factors, such as fatherlessness, contribute to well-being, and teaches children that they're helpless victims of economic historical forces. Students need to learn self-agency to succeed."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"Individuals make better decision about their money and provide more innovations than the state."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"Against"
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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?
"Those who borrow money are responsible for paying it back. If the college education is worthwhile borrowers don't need assistance. If the education only impoverished the borrower, why encourage such a bad investment?"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"Against"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"NH shouldn't use taxpayer money for symbolic gestures."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
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?
"No one should be allowed to vote without identification."
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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?
"Electric cars have have a negligible effect on the environment since power plants need to generate the electricity to power them and energy is expended on the cobalt and nickel needed to manufacture them. In addition, child labor is used to mine cobalt in the Congo. If electric cars are the future, let free enterprise take care of their infrastructure."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"For"
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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?
"Against"
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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?
"Although it's reasonable to be concerned about the environmental impact of carbon emissions, companies like Eversource are signaling virtue by making expensive, symbolic changes that will have minimum impact on climate and pollution and passing the expenses on to the customers. As a result, NH has expanded electricity subsidies for middle-class families. These symbolic changes also raise national security issues by making us more dependent on other countries, such as China where they make the solar panels."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Life begins at conception and has inherent value."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"Against"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the option of mail-in ballots for all voters, not just absentees?
"Mail-in ballots make elections susceptible to ballot harvesting; that is, activists can gather them from institutions such as nursing homes, sort through them, and mail only those that support their candidates."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support New Hampshire’s current system of public school funding, with about two-thirds of total funding coming from local property taxes?
"Local control results in better schools."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"Marijuana has the highest conversion rate to psychosis of any drug. Anyone who wants it can already obtain medical marijuana. "
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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?
"Marijuana has the highest conversion rate to psychosis of any drug. Anyone who wants it can already obtain medical marijuana. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"Marijuana has the highest conversion rate to psychosis of any drug. Anyone who wants it can already obtain medical marijuana. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"The free market has raised hourly pay far above minimum wage."
Undecided| Read My Position
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?
"If the state is running a surplus, it makes sense to return some of the money to towns and cities, but not if the state runs into financial trouble."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the gradual phase-out of the Interests and Dividends tax?
"Individuals make better decision about their money and provide more innovations than the state."
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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?
"Against"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Life begins at conception and has inherent value."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"Against"
