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Why settle for new carbon taxes on just gasoline, diesel, and home heating fuels when you can apply a carbon tax to EVERYTHING! Implementing an “economy wide” “cap and invest” (wh... Read more

On Monday, the lightbulb went off over the heads of the members of the senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee that the Clean Heat Standard bill (H.715) that they are curren... Read more

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From December 2019 – December 2021, the M2 money supply (cash, checking deposits, and easily-convertible near money) increased 41... Read more

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The Tax Foundation released its annual State Business Climate rankings for 2022 on Thursday. Overall, Vermont scored 2^nd worst in New England at #43, behind only Connec... Read more

When Vermont’s Legislature appointed the Pension Benefits, Design, and Funding Task Force, there was a good chance tax increases would be discussed at some point. Now, Vermonters ... Read more

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In testimony provided to the Pension, Benefits, Design and Funding Task Force on September 9, Paul Cillo, President of the Public Assets Institute, came to testify about the “fisc... Read more

When the folks at the Georgetown Climate Center put forward their memorandum of understanding for thirteen New England andRead more

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Steve Klein of the Joint Fiscal Office briefed the Pension and Benefits Task Force, whichRead more

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During the July 8^th meeting of the Vermont Climate Council’s Cross-Sector Mitigation Committee, the group started to delve into some ofRead more

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Some Vermont counties are set to get more money from the federal government in one year than they have gotten from Vermont taxpayers in the 21^st century. Part of the Co... Read more

            A few days ago I received a copy of an email to a constituent from Rep. George Till, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. The Committee is apparently discus... Read more

For years, legislators on the left have been eager to tax so called “cloud” services, or, as the legal language refers toRead more

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Vermont ranked 41^st out of 50 states, when it comes to taxpayers' return on investment (ROI). What Vermont taxpayers pay to Montpelier doesn’t get a great return relati... Read more

During the Town Meeting Week break for the legislature, the Ethan Allen Institute commissioned a scientific poll (450 respondents) to gage where Vermonters are on some of the key ... Read more

There is a proposal making its way through the Vermont House of Representatives toRead more

There is a bill currently before the House Transportation Committee, “An act relating to transportation initiatives to reduceRead more

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The Peterson Foundation, that tracks government spending, recently came up with a surprising result.Read more

S&P Global Ratings changed its outlook for two major types of bonds to negative last week. Vermont's general obligation debt and the Vermont State College bonds outstanding ea... Read more

Yesterday the Vermont House of Representatives voted in favor of the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), sending the controversial legislation to the Governor’s desk for either h... Read more

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 disappe... Read more