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Pages tagged "Covid19/Recovery"


The New House Spending Rule on Covid and Climate

Posted on EAI Blog by John McClaughry · January 11, 2021 3:05 PM · 2 reactions

The new Democratic House of Representatives organized itself this week, and James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal reports that one notable achievement was gutting the existing and not very effective spending controls.

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VT Rep.: Make Covid lockdown permanent to fight climate change!

Posted on EAI Blog by Rob Roper · January 05, 2021 9:45 AM · 3 reactions

Yes, we saw this coming and here it is! Many, including us at EAI, have quipped over the last nine months that if you like the Covid economy, you’ll love the Green New Deal/Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA)/Etc. Well, now Rep. Curt McCormack (D-Burlington, and chair of the House Transportation Committee) penned an op-ed, “Winning the climate and Covid wars with WWII tactics,” in which he argues, “If the Covid-19 pandemic can reduce our carbon emissions in one month by the same amount as we need to reduce per year, 7%, to avoid catastrophic climate change, can we not do this on purpose [emphasis added], in an orderly well-planned fashion?”

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VT Forced 1 in 4 Businesses to Close 1+ Days in 2020, more than 46 States

Posted on EAI Blog by David Flemming · January 04, 2021 12:34 PM · 2 reactions

If you had to predict which state’s businesses were most likely to rebound post-Covid, you would be hard pressed to bet on Vermont. Vermont business owners (especially a certain 6,067 of them) are burdened with a state government that has been exceedingly more cautious than other states in allowing businesses to operate.

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Commentary: Candidate Questions for 2020

Posted on EAI Commentary by John 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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The Government that Cried 'Mask Mandate'

Posted on EAI Blog by David Flemming · July 30, 2020 6:57 AM

As Governor Scott’s mask mandate looms on August 1, a popular question many Vermonters are asking is “how strictly will it be enforced?” Perhaps nothing much will change, as the vast majority of Vermonters already wear masks when out in public. Maybe police will only give warnings. Maybe it will be enforced by social shaming rather than fines and imprisonment. Or maybe Vermont will follow after Florida, where people are being fined $100 for taking off their masks in nearly-empty parking lots after grocery shopping.

If the state views universal mask wearing as the single most important goal for keeping Covid-19 at bay, perhaps we should ask- “has the law been upheld impartially with a lack of personal vindictiveness during the pandemic?” Is the law a line that any self-respecting Vermonter will not cross, because they believe upholding the law is a sacred societal bond, personal beliefs about the mask mandate aside?

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Commentary: After COVID-19: How Much Government?

Posted on EAI Blog by John McClaughry · June 09, 2020 12:35 PM

The pressure of the pandemic and imminent huge budget deficits require that Vermont launch a thoroughgoing Performance Review, not just to “squeeze out waste”, but to bring state government back to focusing its core functions. Barack Obama can explain to Democrats the need to tackle this task.

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Commentary: Help Our Small Businesses Weather the Storm

Posted on EAI Blog by John McClaughry · May 19, 2020 12:33 PM

The pandemic lockdown is decimating small businesses, many of which will never reopen. Here are four things you can do to help your favorite local small businesses weather the storm.

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Commentary: Recovery and Moving Forward

Posted on EAI Blog by John McClaughry · April 07, 2020 12:24 PM

Vermonters battled their way out of the devastation of the 1927 flood.  But Vermont is now a far more expensive enterprise, that can’t be sustained when state revenues disappear. Spending $17,873 per K-12 pupil in public education is too much for next year’s taxpayers to pay, after the economic disaster of 2020. This hard fact will force us to rethink the whole question of how we educate our children

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Commentary: Coronavirus Pandemic Lessons

Posted on EAI Blog by John McClaughry · March 24, 2020 12:20 PM

The coronavirus pandemic alerts us to the depths of our complacency over destructive viruses for which we have no treatment. There are treatments, but official medicine has driven them out of sight. Now we need to put them to the test. One benefit from the pandemic is that senseless regulations are getting brushed aside, and another is that Vermont’s civil society has stepped up to aid the afflicted.

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