Kienen Dyer is a U.S. Navy veteran who believes government should make it easier—not harder—for working people to build a future in New Hampshire. After serving as a nuclear operator aboard the USS Providence, he chose to make Salem his home because he saw the opportunity and promise of the Granite State. Like many young families and workers, however, he has experienced firsthand the challenges of rising housing costs, high property taxes, and an economy that makes it increasingly difficult to get ahead. Kienen is running for the New Hampshire House because he believes Concord should put working families first by lowering the property tax burden, properly funding public schools, and ensuring New Hampshire remains a place where people can afford to live, work, and raise a family.

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Meet Kienen

My name is Kienen Dyer and I am running for New Hampshire’s House of Representatives out of Salem. Born in Laramie, Wyoming, and having moved to New England at a very young age, I’ve always felt that there was more to this great country than any one life could experience. That between the coasts lies a breadth of all possible walks of life and that our greatest inheritance as Americans is the ability to choose. With that, I chose to enlist in the United States Navy, partly for where they might take me, and partly to follow so many members of my family in service. I joined out of Bristol, Connecticut, to see the world, and so it was fitting that I would be stationed 65 miles from my hometown at the Groton submarine base, though my training at this point had taken me up and down the east coast. I joined the crew of the USS Providence, the oldest and fastest submarine in the fleet at the time, as a nuclear operator, and I served through her last deployment before decommissioning in Bremerton, Washington, where I would end my time in the service. This was the first time since my decision to join the Navy that I had felt that ability to choose, and from just outside Seattle, I chose New Hampshire.In the few years that I’ve lived here, I’ve seen the beauty of this state for myself and made a home here, but as a young person trying to settle down, I have also seen many barriers. Between the nationwide cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, and the ever-increasing price at the pump, New Hampshire is by no means immune to the economic trials of our time. In fact, on housing affordability alone, New Hampshire ranks 40th in the nation according to MonitorBankRates indexing, placing it slightly below the national average. On the taxes that you would pay for that property, should you be able to afford it, New Hampshire ranks 5th in the nation for highest property tax burden. Couple that with nationally rising prices, stagnating pay, and a shrinking New Hampshire labor market and we have a state with significant challenges for anyone not already wealthy. Overwhelmingly so, the tax structure of this state benefits those who have already made their wealth at the direct expense of future generations. Between the free state project and the Heritage foundation, New Hampshire Republicans have used this state to pioneer a national project of leveraging the success of our parents to borrow from our children and now we all feel that cost. For almost 20 years, the Republicans in this state have chosen to routinely cut taxes on corporations, capital gains, private trusts, and dividends, without any statewide plan to makeup that money, knowing full well that the cost of our schools, roads, and police departments only rise with inflation. This puts the burden on local towns and communities to make that money up somehow or be forced to close those very schools, hospitals, and libraries to cut costs. Given that we are all proud of living in a state with no income or sales tax, our towns are often left with no choice but to raise your property taxes yet again simply to afford the statewide tax cuts Republicans once again gifted the wealthiest.From the party of fiscal responsibility, this is an insult to working families who live here. We are being told that if we want to live and work in this state, if we want to have a family here, we have to pay for that privilege, but if we make enough money to fund entire industries then we owe nothing. The freedom we enjoy in the Graite State has never been so expensive. This is as fiscally irresponsible as it is preventable, and shifting the burden of funding our public infrastructure from working families to those who can most afford to chip in, directly lowering your property taxes by forcing Concord to pay its fair share, and ensuring our schools are not permanently closed in favor of a private model no working person my age can afford is what I intend to do with your vote this November, and for the next 2 years in the state house. I humbly ask for your vote, and your support in representing the town of Salem on the path to a state where your voice is more important than your wallet, where living free isn’t sold to the highest bidder, and where the direction of your life is determined by the choices that you make rather than the money that you haven’t. With how ignored we all feel in today’s politics, we each have an equal vote to make our voices heard this November, let’s make them hear us in Salem!