Terry Roy
Serving as: NH House Rockingham County District 31
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 wonderful for the children of New Hampshire. The only people who don't like it are the teacher's unions. They have for so long bread mediocrity in their ranks that they cannot tolerate scrutiny and competition. If the public school is the best place for children to go then parents will not remove their children and send them elsewhere. The very popularity of this program shows the public dissatisfaction of the current public school model. In New Hampshire we cherish education of children not institutions. Whatever the best educational environment for the child is, is exactly where the child belongs and the money should follow the child. Furthermore, with the teachers unions becoming more politicized and insisting on teaching controversial concepts and theories to children that go against the values of the families in the community, is driving greater demand for programs like this. I firmly believe that the best thing for public education is competition. Monopolies are bad for business in the world of economics and bad for children in the world of education. Children belong to their parents and not the state."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"The current laws regarding access to abortion are more lenient than most European countries and equal to or more lenient than most American states. On New Hampshire woman has the ability to choose to keep or terminate her pregnancy up to 6 months. After 6 months it becomes a question of whether or not continuing the pregnancy would be a danger to the mother or if there is evidence of a fatal fetal anomaly which would result in the child not being able to survive at birth. The people of New Hampshire have expressed that the current laws are where they would like to stay. Terminating the life of a child that could survive outside of the womb is no longer about a woman's right to choose, It is about state sanctioned barbarism. A fetus at 6 months gestation is a fully formed human being with the ability to feel pain, respond to the sound of its mothers voice and many other amazing things. Killing this child because allowing it to be born would be inconvenient to the mother can only be described as an act of savagery and unbefitting a civilized society."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"The current laws regarding access to abortion are more lenient than most European countries and equal to or more lenient than most American states. On New Hampshire woman has the ability to choose to keep or terminate her pregnancy up to 6 months. After 6 months it becomes a question of whether or not continuing the pregnancy would be a danger to the mother or if there is evidence of a fatal fetal anomaly which would result in the child not being able to survive at birth. The people of New Hampshire have expressed that the current laws are where they would like to stay. Terminating the life of a child that could survive outside of the womb is no longer about a woman's right to choose, It is about state sanctioned barbarism. A fetus at 6 months gestation is a fully formed human being with the ability to feel pain, respond to the sound of its mothers voice and many other amazing things. Killing this child because allowing it to be born would be inconvenient to the mother can only be described as an act of savagery and unbefitting a civilized society."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"Our lack of an income tax allows our citizens to take home more of their hard earned pay, which they then return back into our economy through purchases of goods and services."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"Our lack of a sales tax continues to play an important part in keeping New Hampshire an affordable place to live, as well as attracting consumers from surrounding states to make expensive purchases. This in turn helps support our retail businesses and the jobs they create."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"Generally, I support keeping business taxes competitive enough to attract more businesses to the state. That being said, we must keep a close eye on many other factors prior to lowering. These include but are not limited to continuing to fund critic services, the status of our pension debt liabilities. Clear eyed tax relief for business is a good thing when done responsibly."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"A capital gains tax is government reaping the rewards of a citizens investment while sharing none of the risk. When a citizen makes a profit from investing or the sale of real estate, the money they used to originally purchase or invest, was already taxed by the federal government. Additionally, the capital gain is also taxable at the federal level in many cases. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"If anything is to be done to protect our environment from man-made pollutants it must be done at a national level and multilational level. Attempting to impact the outcome on a piecemeal state-by-state basis will do little to help the climate but do much to hurt our individual citizens."
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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?
"While this is the current state of the law, the mere idea that there is somewhere out there a human being with no identification is ludicrous. The ability to vote is one of the most important rights in our Republic. Even one vote cast fraudulently steals the right of the person who cast it legally. There should be universal identification required to vote."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"I believe there are ways to encourage localities to open up more ability to create new housing, without infringing in local control of the people's right to determine the kind and size of the community that they reside in. I think that all ideas should be explored including public/private partnerships. There is no doubt we require more housing and cities and towns know this better than anyone, but fears of too many new residents putting greater demand on already overburdened schools, law enforcement and other local services, are legitimate. Programs such as service bonding for larger developments have been successful in other states and may be worth exploring. The first step to resolving any issue is to work closely with the stakeholders from the beginning vs. a top down mandate."
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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 is more Marxist top-down government control. Forcing power companies to pay a higher rate to certain special classes for power generated by their local solar or wind operations is unfair to the average consumer. The cost of these artificially inflated payments are not born by the power companies. They are passed on to the consumer."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"The current laws regarding access to abortion are more lenient than most European countries and equal to or more lenient than most American states. On New Hampshire woman has the ability to choose to keep or terminate her pregnancy up to 6 months. After 6 months it becomes a question of whether or not continuing the pregnancy would be a danger to the mother or if there is evidence of a fatal fetal anomaly which would result in the child not being able to survive at birth. The people of New Hampshire have expressed that the current laws are where they would like to stay. Terminating the life of a child that could survive outside of the womb is no longer about a woman's right to choose, It is about state sanctioned barbarism. A fetus at 6 months gestation is a fully formed human being with the ability to feel pain, respond to the sound of its mothers voice and many other amazing things. Killing this child because allowing it to be born would be inconvenient to the mother can only be described as an act of savagery and unbefitting a civilized society."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"This is once again, Marxist central planning with government interfering in the free market.The best way for government to help is to stay out of the way. For example, incentivizing child care business through targeted business tax and fee reductions would allow them to pay higher wages. This would also allow independent childcare providers to keep more of their earnings if they do business in high demand locations. Reducing government interference in business always fares better than government give aways, because in order for the government to give money to one group, it must take it first from another. Which group shall we take from to augment funding for childcare? Ideally, if we could reign in federal deficit spending and taxation, we could increase wages enough that a couple wishing to start a family could afford to allow one parent stay home to take care of small children."
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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?
"This is perhaps the one area where I would support a broad-based sales tax. A broad-based sales tax with a constitutional amendment revoking local property tax for education. In other states where they have implemented sales tax or income tax for the purpose of funding education have always resulted in both the new tax and the property tax remaining. If we were to institute one the other must then be permanently revoked. This would also require that educator union contracts being negotiated centrally at the state level if the state is paying for the cost of education. I do not foresee teacher unions agree to this and until they do nothing will change. With New Hampshire cities and towns consistently raising their education taxes year after year, we are literally taxing our most vulnerable citizens out of their homes. The school boards are almost always populated by younger citizens with children and more dynamic incomes. Little thought is ever given to the senior citizen on a fixed income who cannot afford double digit increases in their taxes year after year when they're only income is social security which very rarely gets above two or three percent a year in the cost of living increase. The system is set up to pit families with children against families without. I believe a broad-based sales tax could ensure that everyone participated in public education costs without forcing the disabled and elderly out of their homes."
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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?
"With our country suffering from over a decade of opioid and other substance abuse problems, the idea of the state actually selling mind-altering drugs for the public is abhorrent. The first role of government is the safety of its citizens. We spend millions of taxpayer dollars on programs to divert young people from drug use. For us to then turn around and not only say this drug use is acceptable, but actually sell it is hypocritical beyond description."
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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?
"With our country suffering from over a decade of opioid and other substance abuse problems, the idea of the state actually selling mind-altering drugs for the public is abhorrent. The first role of government is the safety of its citizens. We spend millions of taxpayer dollars on programs to divert young people from drug use. For us to then turn around and not only say this drug use is acceptable, but actually sell it is hypocritical beyond description."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"With our country suffering from over a decade of opioid and other substance abuse problems, the idea of the state actually selling mind-altering drugs for the public is abhorrent. The first role of government is the safety of its citizens. We spend millions of taxpayer dollars on programs to divert young people from drug use. For us to then turn around and not only say this drug use is acceptable, but actually sell it is hypocritical beyond description."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"The free market gets this right. The concept often cited by Democrats is that no one should work full time and be unable to sustain themselves on that pay. This is a Marxist ideology. In free market capitalism, the need for the particular skill vs the people who possess it, drives the amount of the wage for it. This incentivizes people to better themselves by acquiring higher education or skills that will command a higher wage. Take that incentive away and you end up with inflation and a large segment of society living in poverty and becoming reliant on government services, which is the goal of Marxism."
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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?
"Abortion at any stage of a pregnancy is a sad loss of life. Even according to the pro choice movement, abortion is a deeply personal and painful decision. It is not something for a state to use to increase medical tourism. As adults are able to choose their own path with regard to gender medical services, this question can only be related to minors. Performing surgery and administering hormones to minors is not health care. It is the state sanctioned medical mutilation of children and should be banned nationwide."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"The current laws regarding access to abortion are more lenient than most European countries and equal to or more lenient than most American states. On New Hampshire woman has the ability to choose to keep or terminate her pregnancy up to 6 months. After 6 months it becomes a question of whether or not continuing the pregnancy would be a danger to the mother or if there is evidence of a fatal fetal anomaly which would result in the child not being able to survive at birth. The people of New Hampshire have expressed that the current laws are where they would like to stay. Terminating the life of a child that could survive outside of the womb is no longer about a woman's right to choose, It is about state sanctioned barbarism. A fetus at 6 months gestation is a fully formed human being with the ability to feel pain, respond to the sound of its mothers voice and many other amazing things. Killing this child because allowing it to be born would be inconvenient to the mother can only be described as an act of savagery and unbefitting a civilized society."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"As the Supreme Court has ruled that it is the prime responsibility of the federal government to enforce our immigration laws, they are the only ones who can lawfully protect our borders. Local law enforcement refusing to cooperate with them in this effort, is dangerous and has resulted in many deaths. Either something is the law or it is not the law. Allowing localities to decide which laws they like in which laws they don't like is it dangerous path to go down and causes a lack of faith in our entire system. While I do not support our state and local law enforcement actually enforcing immigration law, I do believe that they should be obligated to share information with them."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"If this question or changed to say ' should New Hampshire pass stricter laws on the freedom of speech? ', it would not even be asked on this survey. Why? Because the freedom of speech is a right guaranteed by our Constitution. Just like the right to keep in bear arms. We do not tolerate the passing of laws to weaken constitutional rights. If the right itself is deemed by the majority of the population to be wrong, then there is a mechanism in place to change that right by amending the Constitution."
