PASSED
in the State House of Representatives
on April 30, 2015, by a vote of 78-62
. Purpose:To fund an omnibus healthcare package that includes increases for Vermont Health Connect insurance subsidies, higher Medicaid reimbursement rates for doctors, increased payments to Blueprint for Health, and funding for new positions under the Green Mountain Care Board. .
Analysis: Those voting YES on this amendment supported extending Vermont’s 6% sales tax to candy (not containing flour) and sweetened beverages (not milk based), applying Vermont’s 9% rooms and meals tax to vending machine purchases, and increasing the tax on cigarettes by 33¢ over two years (by 25¢ beginning July 1, 2015). The total tax increase on Vermonters amounts to roughly $12 million. .
Those voting NO opposed these tax increases. .
As Recorded in the House Journal, Friday, February 13, 2014: “Shall the report of the Committee on Health Care be amended as recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means? was decided in the affirmative. Yeas, 78. Nays, 62.” (Read the Journal, p. 1216-1244.) . Related Materials: JFO Analysis .
its to bad, we can-not afford to live in Vermont, we need a re-call vote law where we can remove the idiots that get elected to serve the residents of Vermont, and only serve number one. there is not any balanced budget or any property tax relief, why do we keep electing these idiots.
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We will be shopping more in New Hampshire. They will still squander our money.
I see more trips to NH in the future. It would be nice for a change if the politicians kept their hands in their own pockets
its to bad, we can-not afford to live in Vermont, we need a re-call vote law where we can remove the idiots that get elected to serve the residents of Vermont, and only serve number one. there is not any balanced budget or any property tax relief, why do we keep electing these idiots.