Unvalidated climate models that don’t correspond with physical data and the requirements of the scientific method contribute to unfounded climate alarmism, a retired NASA physicist said at the Heartland Institute’s recent America First Energy Conference.
The bottom line is that the carbon tax is a pocketbook issue for all consumers. Businesses will not absorb the higher costs that they face due to the carbon tax. That tax increase will be passed directly back to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Many of the states refusing to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s election commission aren’t in compliance with federal law on maintaining voter registration lists, according to government watchdog groups.
In general, an overwhelming majority of Americans’ will pay less in federal taxes. So how will you fare under the GOP tax plan?
While members of Congress may agree in principle that the bloated and Byzantine bureaucracy needs reform, concrete plans often run into fierce opposition from congressmen and senators who stand to lose federal jobs in their district or see agencies stripped from the jurisdiction of the committees they sit on.
There are increasing rumblings that some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are looking for ways to give legal status to illegal aliens currently in the United States.
A national atheist organization gave a big “bah humbug” to Christmas with Nativity scene billboards that say “Just Skip Church, It’s All Fake News!”
The results of the tests showed that the TSA screeners failed to detect weapons, drugs, and explosives almost 80 percent of the time. While the exact failure rate is classified, multiple sources indicate it is greater than 70 percent.
The California study concludes that, “In these industries [food services and retail trade], we project 10.7 and 9.5 percent of jobs will be eliminated as a result of a $15 minimum.” Tell us again how a $15 minimum wage is supposed to help low-wage Vermonters?
After nine overhauls of our public education system in less than 30 years, the U.S. has fallen in world standings for education, to 39th in math and 24th in reading. We are officially behind Estonia. The schools aren’t getting the job done.
The economic numbers clearly have improved on President Donald Trump’s watch, with unemployment down and consumer confidence stronger.
VPIRG will never give up trying to get legislative majorities to tax, mandate, prohibit, spend, regulate and penalize the people of this state until its every imaginable goal is achieved — and that imagination has no limit.