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Commentary: TCI Looks DOA

Posted on EAI Commentary by Rob Roper · December 01, 2020 4:51 PM · 1 reaction

The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), referring to the organization itself rather than the policy, has put off publication of their final proposal for a multi-state, regional carbon tax on gasoline and diesel fuel for well over half a year. Originally, they promised to release it in the spring of 2020, then hinted at summer, and are currently operating under a promise to do so this fall – a window rapidly closing. Presumably, the delays are part of a strategy to hold off until a politically opportune time. It doesn’t appear such a time will ever transpire. Increasingly, TCI looks dead on arrival.

The latest blow comes from Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, who, up until a very short time ago, was TCI’s biggest cheerleader. But now, according to the Boston Herald, “Gov. Charlie Baker said governors are re-evaluating support of a controversial carbon tax designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions….”

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Commentary: Combating “Welfare for the Rich”

Posted on EAI Commentary by John & Anne McClaughry · December 01, 2020 12:39 PM · 1 reaction

A new book “Welfare for the Rich” explains the many ways that government policies benefit the rich, leaving the not-rich to hold the bag. We need to “raise the hue and cry” to put a stop to it.

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John's Commentary: Election Law Reforms Worth Considering

Posted on News by John & Anne McClaughry · November 17, 2020 4:04 PM · 1 reaction

This turbulent election season is now over, at least for Vermont. It’s a good time to peruse a menu of election law reforms that the next legislature should seriously consider.

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Commentary: Elections Over, Challenges Ahead

Posted on EAI Commentary by John & Anne McClaughry · November 04, 2020 1:44 PM · 1 reaction

The 2021 legislature faces major challenges on Fiscal Worries, Revenue Shortfalls, Retirement Fund Deterioration, and Electric Grid Challenges, but the governor surely won‘t launch a much needed Performance Review.

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Commentary: False Alarm, The Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act

Posted on EAI Commentary by David Flemming · October 20, 2020 10:33 AM · 2 reactions

U.S Senate Democrats are claiming that a conservative Supreme Court will end Obamacare coverage for 20 million Americans. This is shameless fearmongering. The horrors they so stridently predict will simply not materialize.

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Commentary: Vermont, the Only State Seeing No Need for Election Safeguards

Posted on EAI Commentary by David Flemming · October 19, 2020 11:35 AM

By avoiding best practices in a vote-by-mail effort practiced in other states, our Secretary of State Jim Condos is opening Vermont up to questions of electoral fraud.

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Commentary: Free Exercise and Faith-Based Schools

Posted on EAI Commentary by John & Anne McClaughry · September 22, 2020 3:10 PM

A Supreme Court ruling in a Montana case finds that the government’s failure to pay tuition for children attending faith based schools is an unacceptable burden on “free exercise of religion”. That opens the door to tuitioning to such schools in Vermont, and vitiating our “no compelled support” constitutional provision.

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Commentary: Shout-downs place democracy in peril

Posted on EAI Commentary by David Flemming · September 08, 2020 10:43 AM

For years, public demonstrations on issues ranging from abortion to climate change have been commonplace in Vermont, signs of a healthy civil discourse. But some demonstrations have taken a more sinister tone of late, undermining the foundations of our democracy.

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Commentary: Renewable Energy and Blackouts

Posted on EAI Commentary by John & Anne McClaughry · August 25, 2020 2:12 PM · 1 reaction

California has just suffered electrical blackouts affecting over 200,000 people, and there will be more to come on hot summer evenings. Why? Because California has become infatuated with subsidizing solar and wind powered electricity, which disappears when the sun goes down and the wind stops. Vermont is heading down that same mistaken path.

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Commentary: Candidate Questions for 2020

Posted on EAI Commentary by John & Anne McClaughry · August 13, 2020 10:50 AM · 1 reaction

Here are 16 incisive questions, fairly stated, to put to your candidate for the legislature, Governor and Lt. Governor. Voters deserve to know what they’ll get by giving their votes. That’s what makes democracy work.

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