Overview
- New Hampshire Republican legislators joined the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance for press events inside the Massachusetts State House to promote what they called a growing economic divide.
- They pointed to SynQor and Analogic relocating operations to Salem, New Hampshire, moves that together involve roughly 750 jobs.
- Presenters contrasted a list of 15 Massachusetts taxes and mandates with New Hampshire’s lighter tax structure, arguing this is attracting employers across the border.
- Gov. Maura Healey said Massachusetts’ economy is about eight times larger than New Hampshire’s and asserted that many New Hampshire residents commute to jobs in the Bay State.
- Healey highlighted the newly formed Massachusetts Competitiveness Council as her policy response, while 2026 Republican campaigns seized on the episode to criticize her economic record.