Employers already face high costs from government taxes and regulations. They don’t also need the government competing with them. Policymakers should end the federal unemployment insurance bonus payments now.
What of leaders in Vermont who have aped the mainstream media’s dishonesty about the origin of COVID-19, favoring the anti-Trump narrative that the disease developed from a natural transmission from bats to humans, and portraying any other theories as racist and hateful?
By creating different classes of voters, in different towns, you are potentially creating a vastly unequal playing field. For example, is it proper to allow different groups of voters to weigh in on statewide school spending issues?
Even more than teaching theories on gender identity or climate change, critical race theory raises basic questions about our philosophy of public education.
The major consequence of Act 60 has been breaking the link between what local voters choose to spend on their schools, and the responsibility for paying those bills.
The attorney general, and most of the attorneys employed by the state, are aligned against taxpayers. It is time to hire an attorney ombudsman who will stand without conflict for the citizens instead of the government and the special interests that now operate it.
The voters of Montpelier invited these immigrants to enjoy full membership in their community, regardless of what stage they were at in the national citizenship process. The governor slammed the door shut on them. And indeed on all the voters in both Montpelier and Winooski.
While 64% of white Vermonters in Chittenden County owned their home, the same is true for only 17% of Black Vermonters. It’s easy to write these off as symptoms of nonsystemic factors, but doing so would ignore a significant amount of the history of homeownership.
One wonders if some of Sen. Chris Pearson’s contractor friends will invite him back to their barbeques after he pulls this on them. It should come as no surprise that finding Pearson’s “libertarian streak” is a bit like chasing the elusive Bigfoot.
As long as kids are forced into one-size-fits-all classrooms and curricula, there will be angry battles tearing communities apart over what that one size is going to be and who it’s going to fit. So, school choice.
Letting the Republican tax reductions of 2017 expire as scheduled in 2025 means that a hundred million of ordinary middle class families will be forced to shoulder an enormous spending burden.
Vermont’s education system is revealing its lack of critical thinking skills as it thrusts a toxic, hate-filled, race-based invective onto Vermont’s children. Since educators can’t think critically, parents had better do so.