Stephen Craig Pierce

Official election context

Stephen Craig Pierce is recorded as candidate for State House — Merrimack 8 in New Hampshire State Primary on 2026-09-08. Filing provenance: imported.

Reviewed evidence

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Local taxing equals local control. Allowing state level taxes (Income/Sales) removes control from the local level. Taxes collected at the state level is not flow back to the town before the state expends these moneys for state level services. Whatever tax money is revenue shared to the town, the selectboard may expend some of the money before applying the balance as an offset to property taxes. Local control is wholly removed from control of the new taxes.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Measured, incremental reductions. Specific to additional business tax money flowing into the state treasury due to business growth. The reduction further enhances New Hampshire competitive edge at attracting new businesses to our state and confirms New Hampshire supports a predictable tax profile for business enterprise.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I stand against local zoning/building/development be implemented or mandated beyond the town level. The town/city is best prepared to determine when to change/adjust/modify zoning and building guidelines. We must be a local control state where each town/city makes the changes as needed. Local knowledge supersedes 'one size fits all' zoning/building changes.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Expanded parental options need to address the cost for lower income families to participate in school choice. With EFA's, many middle income and lower income families can participate in school choice. This program further empowers a better school setting for the student.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Stepped process. 10% is fine; larger percentage in the future. Parental options should allow flexible decisions for parent/student education. The student and the students education are paramount. The 'educational system' does not earn protections by limiting parental/student options.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Local taxation equals local control. Once money is taxed at the state level, it may or may not return (revenue sharing) to the town. The town government may or may not use the revenue sharing to lower property taxes. Too many entities beyond the taxpayer have control; no guarantee the taxpayer receives a property tax reduction similar to the amount paid in taxed wages or sales taxes.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Wages and Benefits are the largest cost in school budgets. They are predictable and can be relied upon to be accurate in the immediate future years. School can control increases to match CPI with very little problem.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Safe, cost effective, reliable, and technically mature. Small reactors are less complicated. The complexity of a nuclear reactor grows exponentially as size doubles. Smaller reactors have more location options as they require lower amounts of cooling water.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  New metering is in a growth mode and is a new arena for consumers. I do not want larger entities to take undo advantage (game the system) as net metering becomes more common place. I do not want consumers to pay a price who are not in a position to 'net meter' power back to the electrical grid. I remain optimistic of net metering but careful that the consumer will benefit.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Society has a place at the table with regard to the abortion question. Individual control and choice remain primary in the ongoing discussion of when and when not to abort. Choice does have an end point (with medical exceptions) at 24 weeks in New Hampshire. It is a workable balance.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  The 2nd Amendment is purposeful and needed. People using guns, not the guns, are the problem. Many more crimes against people are by means other than guns. Guns have been highlighted as "dangerous" when other weapons - knives, blunt instruments, hands, etc - play a much larger roll in injury.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Maine's experiment with expanded marijuana laws has proven a nightmare situation. The control, monitoring, enforcement, and accountability have escaped the capabilities of the designated government authorities. People can be cunning, guile, and brazen in a semi-rural or rural environment. New Hampshire is well served to tread cautiously and heed the problems Maine is dealing with during these times.

• Stephen Craig Pierce - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  The vote is sacred. It is not to be squandered with those who profess to not have ID. We need ID to get a job, loan, license, enter into a contract, marry, and be buried. An ID does not hamper anyone from voting; it ensures the voter has the right to vote.

Profile summary

Stephen Craig Pierce is a Republican candidate for New Hampshire House, Merrimack County District 08. His profile lists experience on a town zoning board, as current town treasurer, in the construction industry, corporate financial planning, as a former Teamster Union member, and as a U.S. Air Force captain in missile operations.