Chris Cogswell

Official election context

Chris Cogswell is recorded as candidate for State House — Sullivan 6 in New Hampshire State Primary on 2026-09-08. Filing provenance: imported.

Reviewed evidence

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  A broad based tax on earned income would not be my first choice for dealing with the economic inequality and fiscal reality NH residents deal with. I do believe we need to make the taxation system more fair. This would have to include increasing taxes targeted to the ultra wealthy and mega corporations which operate or reside in New Hampshire. But anyone earning less than $250k a year or under as a household should not be paying to bail out billionaires and the corporations killing our mom and pop stores.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  New Hampshire already has a tax system that benefits businesses and corporations over families and residents, and it has done absolutely nothing to increase entrepreneurship, new small businesses opening, or made the quality of life for the average NH family any better.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  We need to increase affordable housing for growing New Hampshire families. I believe that how those policies are enacted needs to be decided at the local municipality level, since there are a lot of different sizes and types of communities in New Hampshire. However, incentivizing municipalities to increase home building by removing blighted properties, creating grant programs for first time home buyers and builders, and other similar programs are a good idea.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  The system as it exists now does nothing but siphon money out of "bad" districts and into "good" districts. However, the good districts are often better off financially, have better local social services, and other advantages which is why they are better in the first place. It does nothing to actually fix the problem (that some public schools in NH are significantly better than others), and actually makes it worse (by leaving behind only the kids whose parents cannot afford to/don't have the time to fight to send their kid to another program somewhere else). It's a "jump the ship" mentality that does not work for governments, businesses, or really any large group trying to work together.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  It is clear that this system does not work in it's current state. Homes should not be treated like investments that can be sold off to pay for higher taxes, when the majority of New Hampshire home owners cannot and will not sell their homes to reap the benefits of rising home prices. I believe that we should find new revenue streams to make up for the fiscal shortfalls we are seeing, and actually fund public schooling adequately here. There are a number of options for this, including legalizing and taxing marijuana, reinstating the interest and dividends tax, increasing corporate taxes on business earning more than $500 million a year in revenue in New Hampshire, taxes on vacation homes for out of state residents, and other options.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Abortion should not be up to the state, but should be a medical decision made by a doctor and a patient. Less than 1% of Abortions happen after 24 weeks of gestation, and when they do it is for extremely complex and often traumatic reasons for the patient and their family. If an abortion has to happen past this point, it always includes a medical professional. I see no reason why we should limit the tools available for doctors to save and care for patients, and trust that our doctors in New Hampshire would have the ethical and professional standards to know when this is an appropriate medical decision.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  New Hampshire is currently a net energy exporter in our region. While I am very hopeful that nuclear energy can one day become a safe energy source in the United States, there are a lot of places where the placement of nuclear reactors makes significantly more sense than in the state of New Hampshire.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  We should not be choosing to shut needed public services that benefit all of us in the long run to help out of state businesses get more government handouts and tax breaks.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Anyone in New Hampshire who would utilize marijuana is already doing so by going to surrounding states. This is another very short sighted and incompetent business/economic decision by those who would rather punish people they disagree with for moral reasons than mind their own business and let others enjoy the freedom they claim to support.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  From studies about the impacts of policies like this it is clear they do nothing meaningful to protect elections but do make it harder for the average US citizen to vote. We should be finding ways to make elections easier and more meaningful for the average citizen so that we have true representative democracy in the United States as the founders intended.

• Chris Cogswell - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  The majority of New Hampshire residents support common sense gun laws. I see no reason why we can't come to a compromise on this issue in a state with as much respect and understanding of guns as New Hampshire. That being said, the majority of gun deaths in New Hampshire are from suicide. I believe we can do significantly more good by building a better mental health care system with lower insurance premiums so that those most at risk for gun violence can receive the help they need.

Profile summary

Chris Cogswell is a chemical and environmental engineer, podcast host, entrepreneur, and Claremont city council member at large. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Northeastern University and a BS in chemical engineering and philosophy from the University of New Hampshire.