It's 'Diner Table Economics!' With Lily Tang Williams: Watch

By Michael Graham, NH Journal

Live from the Airport Diner in Manchester, NHJournal presents Diner Table Economics!

Want to hear the specific economic proposals from the people who want to serve as your next representative in Congress? You’ll get it here, straight from the candidates themselves, over a cup of coffee at the iconic Airport Diner.

No “horserace politics,” no “politics of personality,” just a 20-minute conversation about jobs, inflation, taxes, and spending. The policy positions from taxes to housing to education funding that impact the daily lives of Granite Staters.

In this edition, Weare businesswoman and political activist Lily Tang Williams talks about her priorities if elected New Hampshire’s next member of Congress from the Second Congressional District.

A few highlights:

When you talk to people in the Second District about the economy, what is the number one concern they have right now?

“Inflation. People have seen the price of everything going up. And the seniors on fixed incomes, and the working families — mom and dad raising children working to bring home the bacon — everything’s going up.

“Your gas, your childcare. Even dental cleaning. My neighbor told me he used to pay $60 cash for a comprehensive dental cleaning. Now it’s $200. And he is working past his Social Security [retirement] age because he cannot pay his bills. It’s a big challenge.”

Where are you on tariffs and do you think they’re good for the New Hampshire economy?

“Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian-leaning Republican. I love free trade. I think if every country can trade with us freely, with minimum government regulation, that is best. But when it comes to China, our number one national security and the adversarial country — who wants to take over the world — when it comes to China, for the national security purposes, we have to do what we need to do to conquer China.

“They want to flood the world with cheap [products], especially New Green Deal solar panels and drones and the batteries, all subsidized by the government. They will want to grow and they want to control the [weapons] supply. And we are relying on them? It’s ridiculous.”

What would your energy strategy be?

“I am for all kinds of energy development and all resources: fracking, drill, solar, wind, whatever. I think the market will take care of it once we scale back the government regulation.”

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