{"id":9407,"date":"2012-06-12T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2012-06-12T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:06:20","slug":"telegraph-editorial-dont-let-rhetoric-distort-n-h-s-business-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/06\/12\/telegraph-editorial-dont-let-rhetoric-distort-n-h-s-business-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph Editorial: Don’t Let Rhetoric Distort N.H.’s Business Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do New Hampshire politicians only put on their New Hampshire Advantage glasses when it’s convenient?<\/p>\n

The Nashua Telegraph has an editorial today<\/a> urging Granite Staters to “resist distortion” of New Hampshire’s business image by candidates during election season. “Let\u2019s guard against those candidates who would distort the state\u2019s business-friendly reputation for sheer political expediency,” the Telegraph states, which is “pretty much what happened two years ago, when Republican nominee John Stephen spent a good part of the campaign lambasting Gov. John Lynch for presiding over a state that sports ‘the highest business tax rate in the nation.'”<\/p>\n

The Telegraph refers to a much-reported survey<\/a> from the Kauffman Foundation and Thumbtack.com \u2014 published May 8th \u2014 to suggest that New Hampshire is already<\/em> one of the nation’s most business-friendly states.<\/p>\n

During the 2010 gubernatorial race, the New Hampshire Business Review<\/a> published a piece parsing the state’s business climate. That story suggested that while politicians focus on the well-being of small businesses in the state, it is large corporations and manufacturers for whom New Hampshire is not as business-friendly.<\/p>\n

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