Don’t tell Greg Moore that business tax cuts are starving the state of revenue.

At a business roundtable hosted by Moore’s Americans for Prosperity organization on Tuesday, a group of small business owners and GOP state lawmakers made the case for newly proposed legislation to increase Section 179 business deductions and further lower the state’s Business Enterprise Tax (BET) rate.

(“179 deductions” let New Hampshire businesses immediately write off major equipment purchases instead of depreciating them — a key tax policy tool for encouraging in-state investment and job growth.)

Asked about complaints from Democrats that GOP tax policy was denying state government the income it needs to operate, Moore pointed out that when Republicans forced through the first round of business tax cuts

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