“After years with no further offenses, a person’s risk of committing a new crime drops to that of the average person in the general population. Moreover, contact with the criminal justice system has had a disparate impact on people of color and the poor in our state.”
For all the corporate denunciations of Georgia and threats to punish the state, almost nothing is said by these same companies about their connection to an authoritarian regime that rampantly disregards the most basic rights of its citizens and puts ethnic minorities in concentration camps.
Montpelier has ignored native Vermonters and businesses, who continue to suffer economically from state policies and tax burdens even as the bureaucratic tumor feasts rabidly on federal COVID funds, expands reckless spending in the name of “rescuing” the citizenry, and does nothing to prepare for its own belly-popping explosion when its taxpayer host is bled dry.
In this third installment of an investigative series into Vermont election security and the impacts of S.15, we look to town clerk feedback, and what simple measures could be included in S.15 to make it work, and another option to mass mailing ballots every election.
The U.S. Department of Education recently found that Vermont is one of only two states which “needs intervention in implementing the requirements of Part B Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).” This shatters the myth that Vermont offers disabled students a superior education.
Senate Judiciary has historically been more deliberative than the House committee, but judging from what we saw with S.30, we are not overly optimistic for a positive outcome on H.133.
“In a recent Gallup survey, Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question: ‘what are the chances that someone who gets Covid will need to be hospitalized?'”
Why has this lawlessness been permitted to continue for nearly a year? These Antifa-inspired mobs have been permitted to repeatedly attack federal buildings, destroy local businesses, and assault law enforcement officers for the past year because politicians sympathize with Antifa and support its cause.
The bottle bill, the modernization and recalibration of Vermont’s tax system, the bill requiring registration of construction contractors, and the COVID recovery bill all increase revenues to the government while adding greater burdens on business and individuals.
According to liberal orthodoxy, all Blacks think alike, and all Blacks support Black Lives Matter, and all Blacks oppose the recently enacted Georgia Election Integrity Act. To the contrary, a recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that 69% of Blacks and 82% of nonwhite minorities support voter ID.
A bill making its way through the Vermont Legislature offers yet another example of government’s steady march toward regulating more of our economy and our lives. H.157 aims to establish state control over contractors who do residential construction.
“Fully eliminating this tax is not only about honoring our veterans for their service and sacrifice, but also about growing our workforce and increasing diversity in our state.”