Lucius Parshall
Running for: NH House Cheshire County District 16
Awaiting response to our 2026 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?
"I support repealing this unsupervised drain on our state coffers."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
Undecided| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"Devil in the details. NH needs additional revenue, and current property taxes are acting more like a wealth tax. Any additional tax levies should correspond to property tax reduction."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"While small business in NH benefit from our 7.5% flat rate, we are attracting larger businesses that are using NH law to evade their fair share of taxes. I am in favor of a graduated rate business tax."
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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?
"I have sponsored bills to expand net metering, and I hope that someday one of them will be adopted."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
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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?
"The state needs to do more to equalize budgets and provide a good education for all students, regardless of location."
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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?
"We need to insure availability, affordability and product safety. This is a job of the state, and additionally, if the state were to benefit from additional revenue to wouldn't hurt. We do need to better regulate the industry better than we have regulated the state lottery."
Undecided| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"We need to insure availability, affordability and product safety. This is a job of the state, and additionally, if the state were to benefit from additional revenue to wouldn't hurt. We do need to better regulate the industry better than we have regulated the state lottery."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"We need to insure availability, affordability and product safety. This is a job of the state, and additionally, if the state were to benefit from additional revenue to wouldn't hurt. We do need to better regulate the industry better than we have regulated the state lottery."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Legislators have to stop coming between doctors and their patients."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"We don't need instant availability of guns, or the proliferation of semi-automatic weapons. Sadly, our best allies should be sports hunters, but they have been whipped into a frenzy by a too powerful gun lobby."
