Thomas Cormen
Running for: NH House Grafton County District 15
Completed our 2024 State Candidate Survey
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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 am strongly against EFAs. Public money should go to only public schools, and especially not to religious schools. From Article 6 of the Bill of Rights in the New Hampshire State Constitution: 'But no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the schools of any sect or denomination.'"
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Reproductive decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor. Period, end of story. The state should never be involved."
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Reproductive decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor. Period, end of story. The state should never be involved."
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Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"An income tax could be designed as a progressive tax, but tax revenues would fall during difficult economic times, and it is not clear that other taxes would decrease if an income tax were enacted."
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Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"A sales tax is regressive by nature. Our not having a sales tax provides an advantage to New Hampshire relative to our neighboring states."
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Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"Let's leave business taxes where they are for now."
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Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"We need to raise revenue from somewhere. I am not for taxing earnings from one's own labor. But capital gains are earnings gained passively, and I see nothing wrong with the state taking a share."
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Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"We all have to do our part. We can both increase our use of clean energy and make New Hampshire less dependent on energy sources from outside the state."
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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?
"This would compromise the voter's ability to submit a secret ballot."
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Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"We need tens of thousands of new housing units. We need to see communities throughout the state do their part to alleviate the housing crunch."
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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?
"Very few residential customers would generate 1 MW or more, but businesses could. This would be a pro-business move that also helps the environment."
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Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Reproductive decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor. Period, end of story. The state should never be involved."
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Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"Not only is this an issue for the state's economy at large, but it's also a fairness issue. How is a single parent to cope with finances when a huge chunk of their income goes toward child care?"
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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?
"There are wide disparities in property tax rates throughout the state. Moreover, property taxes hit those on fixed incomes particularly hard, forcing them to move from the homes that they have lived in for decades. Even worse, because of the 'missing middle' of housing, many of these people have nowhere to go."
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"I have softened my position on recreational cannabis in the last year. The fact is that the people of New Hampshire want legalized cannabis. I see no problem in allowing someone to produce their own. If we are going to have retail, I'd like to see that be private stores, rather than state-run."
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"I have softened my position on recreational cannabis in the last year. The fact is that the people of New Hampshire want legalized cannabis. I see no problem in allowing someone to produce their own. If we are going to have retail, I'd like to see that be private stores, rather than state-run."
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"I have softened my position on recreational cannabis in the last year. The fact is that the people of New Hampshire want legalized cannabis. I see no problem in allowing someone to produce their own. If we are going to have retail, I'd like to see that be private stores, rather than state-run."
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Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"The current minimum wage is nowhere near enough to live on. Experience in other countries has shown that raising the minimum wage has little effect on prices."
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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?
"What people do in New Hampshire is not the business of any other state."
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Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Reproductive decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor. Period, end of story. The state should never be involved."
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Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"Local law enforcement doesn't want this."
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Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"We should disallow people who are mentally ill, or who have just been released from a mental health facility from owning guns. We should allow people to put themselves on a 'do not sell to me' registry. And there is no reason why a private citizen should own a weapon that can kill a lot of people very quickly."
