Michael Appleton
Not an incumbent. No voting record. Their campaign website · Their Citizens Count profile
This score comes from Michael Appleton’s own campaign website, not from votes and not from a questionnaire. Michael Appleton returned no answers at all to the Citizens Count survey, so the positions below were read off the platform they published themselves, on michaelappletonnh.com. Every one of them quotes the sentence it came from. That is weaker evidence than a survey answer. A campaign site is written to persuade, not to answer a set question, and it is silent on most of this ballot. The scorecard scores votes.
By issue area
- Raise Taxes to Expand GovernmentFrom the Economic Democracy section of the DSA program0%0/1
Every answer that counted (1)
The question wording is Citizens Count’s. The “aligned answer” column is the answer a DSA-aligned candidate would give, taken from the plank named beside it. Michael Appleton never answered these questions. Each row below quotes what they published on their own site and says why it answers the question. If reaching an answer took any reasoning at all, the row is not here, it is further down and it does not count.
| Question | Read as | Aligned answer | Counted as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad-based income taxShould NH add an income tax on earned income?Raise Taxes to Expand Government · Economic Democracy“He will fight to preserve New Hampshire's competitive advantage by maintaining our promise of no income tax or sales tax”The survey asks whether New Hampshire should add an income tax on earned income. He names the income tax and commits to keeping the state without one. | Against | For | Not aligned |
Read, and deliberately not counted (2)
Michael Appleton's site touches these questions without settling them. Getting from what they wrote to a For or an Against takes a chain of reasoning, and a chain of reasoning is not a position somebody took. None of these are in the score. They are printed so the reader can check the line we drew, instead of taking on trust that one was drawn at all.
- Interest and Dividends taxReads as Against, not counted
“Michael Appleton will vote NO on any new taxes”
Reinstating the repealed interest and dividends tax would be a new tax under a pledge worded this broadly, but he never names that tax, so the answer is read in rather than given. Not counted.
- Majority of public school funding through local property taxesUnsettled, not counted
“work to reduce New Hampshire's property tax burden that already strains working families and seniors on fixed incomes”
He is against the size of the property tax bill. The survey asks something narrower (whether about two-thirds of school funding should keep coming from local property taxes), and wanting a smaller bill does not say which level of government should pay it. Not counted.
Their site says nothing about these (8)
Michael Appleton’s website never raises these. Silence is silence. It is not an “Undecided”, and it is not evidence of anything. None of these counted against Michael Appleton.
- Business tax decreaseNot addressed
- Fund the Office of the Child AdvocateNot addressed
- School district tax cap mandateNot addressed
- "Education Freedom Account" programNot addressed
- Public school open enrollment with limitsNot addressed
- Expand net metering opportunitiesNot addressed
- Allow segregation based on biological sexNot addressed
- Proof of citizenship for newly registered votersNot addressed
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