Kyle Haines
Candidate for State Representative · Hillsborough County District 12 · Independent/Other
Kyle HainesI
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Diet Socialist
72.7%
8 of 11 answers
answered 11 of 11
This score comes from a questionnaire, not from votes. Kyle Haines holds no seat and has cast no roll calls. The scorecard scores votes.
By issue area
- Raise Taxes to Expand GovernmentFrom the Economic Democracy section of the DSA program66.7%2/3
- Grow the State BudgetFrom the Economic Democracy section of the DSA program100%2/2
- Defend the Public School MonopolyFrom the Freedom To Flourish section of the DSA program100%3/3
- Green New Deal Energy MandatesFrom the Green New Deal section of the DSA program0%0/1
- Gender Identity Over Biological SexFrom the Feminism For All section of the DSA program0%0/1
- Loosen Voter Eligibility RulesFrom the Democracy For All section of the DSA program100%1/1
Every answer that counted (11)
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| Question | Their answer | Aligned answer | Counted as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad-based income taxShould NH add an income tax on earned income?Raise Taxes to Expand Government · Economic Democracy"Adding a new broad based tax is a structural change I don't think we need. The fiscally responsible path is restoring stable sources we already had and chose to give up, not building an entirely new tax apparatus from scratch." | Against | For | Not aligned |
| Interest and Dividends taxShould New Hampshire reinstate the interest and dividends tax?Raise Taxes to Expand Government · Economic Democracy"With a decrease in liquor and tobacco tax revenue becoming a trend rather than a single data point, the state is in need of a stable revenue source to ensure excessive cuts aren't made to crucial infrastructure, and to give the state freedom to explore revenue sharing models with the towns to ease some of the property tax burden." | For | For | Aligned |
| Business tax decreaseShould New Hampshire lower business taxes?Raise Taxes to Expand Government · Economic Democracy"The most recent state audit shows business tax revenue came in $131 million below estimate right when federal pandemic money ended and the state covered the $67 million shortfall by drawing from the Rainy Day Fund. Cutting business taxes any further while we're already taking money from the rainy day fund on a sunny day isn't fiscal responsibility." | Against | Against | Aligned |
| Fund the Office of the Child AdvocateShould New Hampshire restore funding for the Office of the Child Advocate?Grow the State Budget · Economic Democracy"Cutting the OCA is the textbook definition of penny wise and pound foolish, especially when this office oversees a youth detention system that produced one of the largest child abuse scandals in the country. I maintain the following principle that I have expressed elsewhere in this survey: Institutions that handle vulnerable people require real, independent oversight, and you don't get to defund the watchdog when their findings are inconvenient. This case also points to a deeper structural problem in how our 'independent' oversight bodies run. They aren't actually insulated from the branches they're meant to check, who can defund them at will. That's a design flaw worth taking seriously. But in the immediate term it is the best we have and we should restore the funding and stop treating the watchdog as the line item to cut." | For | For | Aligned |
| School district tax cap mandateShould state law cap how much local school districts can increase their budget each year?Grow the State Budget · Economic Democracy"This is worse than an unfunded mandate. The state and federal government require local schools to provide a laundry list of services that towns are legally obligated to deliver and to pay for. A state cap layered on top of all these policy mandates then constrains the town's ability to raise the money to pay for it. The town is left obligated to provide what it is neither funded for nor fully permitted to pay for. Also, on the concept of local control, this isn't a case where the state needs to step in to protect anyone's rights. It's local self-governance over local schools, and the remedy for a budget residents think is too high already exists: the voters can reject it at their own town meeting. Where a genuine right is at stake, I want the state to act, but a town funding its own schools by its own vote isn't that. If the concern is runaway budgets, the answer is a stronger, more transparent local budget process, not a single state ceiling imposed on districts whose needs and circumstances differ enormously." | Against | Against | Aligned |
| "Education Freedom Account" programDo 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?Defend the Public School Monopoly · Freedom To Flourish"The program was created with an income cap explicitly as a promise to direct help to lower-income families and keep costs down. In June 2025 that cap was removed entirely, and the result was an increase in spending to a projected figure of over $100 million, drawn from the fund that supports every public school, without even asking who needs it. I also have genuine constitutional concerns about public education dollars flowing to religious schools. I hold the principle that public money shouldn't fund religious establishment, and a program that routes taxpayer education funding into religious schooling, with little accountability, sits uncomfortably with it. I'm aware courts have recently read the Establishment Clause much more narrowly, but a principle doesn't stop being worth defending because a court reads it as such. And finally there's also a serious accountability problem. This year the Legislature killed multiple reasonable oversight measures: a bill to report EFA students' standardized test scores, bills to make the program's financial records public, and to disclose measures of students' educational progress also failed. These are all measures public schools are required to take, and asking the same of voucher recipients is no unjust burden. Meanwhile, the legislative committee specifically charged with monitoring the program didn't meet for over a year and missed its required annual report. We are spending public education dollars and actively declining to measure where they go or what they accomplish." | Against | Against | Aligned |
| Public school open enrollment with limitsShould New Hampshire allow at least 10% of students in each school district to enroll in a different public school, regardless of where they live?Defend the Public School Monopoly · Freedom To Flourish"Open enrollment drains students and funding from the districts least able to absorb the loss thus weakening the school for every child who stays, and it hits poor and rural districts hardest. It also makes responsible planning nearly impossible, with schools' budgeting of both staff and dollars being reliant on stable enrollment. I'd rather invest in making every school strong than bleeding districts dry." | Against | Against | Aligned |
| Majority of public school funding through local property taxesDo you support New Hampshire’s current system of public school funding, with about two-thirds of total funding coming from local property taxes?Defend the Public School Monopoly · Freedom To Flourish"Funding roughly two-thirds of public education through local property taxes is regressive and unstable. The current model ties a child's education to their town's property wealth and puts the heaviest burden on homeowners regardless of ability to pay, and especially on working families. The direction we move in has to be toward a more stable, less regressive state contribution that eases the load on local property taxpayers. Restoring stable state revenue, like a reasonable interest and dividends tax, is one possible piece." | Against | Against | Aligned |
| Expand net metering opportunitiesDo 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?Green New Deal Energy Mandates · Green New Deal"Raising the net-metering cap expands a subsidy structure that is not as beneficial to New Hampshire residents as other options. Net metering credits generators at the full retail rate, which bundles in the fixed costs of the grid that everyone relies on. A large generator credited at retail rates avoids contributing to those fixed costs, and that shortfall is shifted onto the ratepayers who don't have their own generation, often lower and middle income families who cannot afford rooftop solar. I'd rather direct New Hampshire's limited resources toward firm, dispatchable generation that strengthens reliability for every ratepayer and can actually help us to achieve a green energy future." | Against | For | Not aligned |
| Allow segregation based on biological sexShould New Hampshire’s anti-discrimination law allow segregation based on biological sex in some settings, such as bathrooms and locker rooms?Gender Identity Over Biological Sex · Feminism For All"There are two distinctions this question collapses and I want to clarify them. The first regards public versus private. A private gym or club should be free to set its own locker-room or bathroom policy and people can choose to patronize them accordingly. But in the institutions the state itself controls and requires people to be in, such as public schools or prisons, the state does have a legitimate interest in ensuring adequate privacy standards are upheld. But that brings us to: Second, the intimacy of the space. A communal shower or locker room facility raises real privacy, comfort, and safety concerns that a bathroom with stalls simply doesn't. So in genuinely intimate, state-controlled spaces, I think protecting privacy on the basis of biological sex is reasonable."Ticked Other, scored as For. The question asks about some settings, such as locker rooms. He says separation by biological sex is reasonable in intimate state-controlled spaces such as locker rooms and showers. That is a yes to some settings. | Forticked Other | Against | Not aligned |
| Proof of citizenship for newly registered votersShould New Hampshire require new voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, when registering to vote?Loosen Voter Eligibility Rules · Democracy For All"New Hampshire has always required citizenship to vote and that should not change. The prior system had new registrants attest to their citizenship status under penalty of perjury. The problem such a proposal seeks to 'solve' was tiny, with affidavits being used by under 1% of registrants. But the burden is on the people proposing to add a document barrier to demonstrate that it's solving a real, demonstrated problem, and they haven't. Proponents have never shown that non-citizen voting is a meaningful problem in New Hampshire, while the cost is concrete and proven. A no-exceptions documentation requirement turns away eligible citizens who don't have a passport or birth certificate on hand." | Against | Against | Aligned |
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