As the union-backed “Fight for $15” movement has sought to enact mandatory minimum-wage increases in states and localities across the country, tax reform seems to have spurred wage growth using a different approach.
Pepco recently announced it plans to use funds made available by the newly signed tax reform bill to lower customer’s energy bills, confirming the GOP talking point that savings from the legislation would trickle down to consumers.
Vermont is a wonderful place to live. But despite everything our state has to offer, ours is one of only three states since 2010 to have actually lost population. What is happening that fewer people want to live in the greatest place there is to live?
One million Americans are getting pay increases because of the tax reform package signed into law in December, according to Americans for Tax Reform.
That’s the lowest black unemployment has been since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking unemployment in 1972.
Germany will abandon its 2020 national global warming goal, a huge embarrassment to Chancellor Angela Merkel, as part of a deal to put together a coalition government in the wake of September’s elections.
The fact is that “profit” is not a four-letter word. Free enterprise is what built the world’s biggest economy, and it is free enterprise that has provided the means for success of individuals and businesses. Burdensome taxation, employer mandates and over-regulation of business stifles business expansion and economic growth.
When we forget that the success of our liberty was based on the rights of the individual, we forfeit our property and freedom to choose, our form of government becomes more collective, and agendas of a few will operate in parallel with it until the individual does not exist.
It is time for Montpelier to give up trying to find new things to do to attract new citizens and start figuring out what it is they are doing that drives people away — and stop.
Far from being in “the shadows,” as we are constantly told, these illegal immigrants are unabashedly out in the open at these demonstrations.
The Justice Department is investigating the Clinton Foundation to see whether or not it participated in any pay-to-play or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, The Hill reports.
“Vermonters still cannot afford higher taxes or fees. And I, along with my administration and members of the legislature, stand ready to prevent taxes and fees from increasing again this year. And, just so I’m clear, that includes statewide property tax rates.”