{"id":428,"date":"2026-05-15T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/?p=428"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:30:14","slug":"schrodingers-tax-house-dems-vote-both-for-and-against-an-income-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/2026\/05\/15\/schrodingers-tax-house-dems-vote-both-for-and-against-an-income-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Tax:\u2019 House Dems Vote Both For and Against an Income Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican State Rep John Schneller of Bedford inadvertently hit \u201cyes\u201d but had his vote corrected by the House clerk.<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire Democrats continue to struggle with how to handle enacting a state income tax. Polls show it\u2019s wildly unpopular among Granite State voters, but it also has strong support in the party\u2019s progressive base.<\/p>\n<p>That conflict was on clear display Thursday when House Democrats voted down a constitutional amendment allowing the creation of a progressive income tax, then voted against a ban on future income taxes, all within a space of five minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nhjournal.com\/schrodingers-tax-house-dems-vote-both-for-and-against-an-income-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">NH Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican State Rep John Schneller of Bedford inadvertently hit \u201cyes\u201d but had his vote corrected by the House clerk. New Hampshire Democrats continue to struggle with how to handle enacting a state income tax. Polls show it\u2019s wildly unpopular among Granite State voters, but it also has strong support in the party\u2019s progressive base. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnschneller.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}