Keelan: Vermont does not recognize the impact of embezzlement
Embezzlement is committed quite frequently, especially against small municipalities, businesses and nonprofits. Past punishments don’t come anywhere near what is in the statute.
Deb Billado: All believe the USMCA trade deal is great, so what’s the holdup?
An independent panel found the agreement would add $68.2 billion to the U.S. economy, create 176,000 jobs and boost dairy exports to Canada by $227 million. However, Congress has yet to vote on this truly important bill.
‘Popular vote’ movement would shift power to big cities, experts warn
“This is not just going on in blue states,” England said of the movement to bypass the electoral college. “This is a serious threat wherever you live. Red state, purple state, there are people there lobbying to hijack the Electoral College.”
Roper: False claims of falsity about Vermont’s business climate
Digger has zero evidence that Vermont’s bad business climate wasn’t the reason Energizer left. It may very well be the reason the company left. Digger doesn’t know.
John Klar: Orwellian fear reigns in Vermont
But most Vermonters can see through the fear and hate to the real threats — economic implosion, deaths from ubiquitous opioids, the irrevocable loss of vital rural schools.
McClaughry: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Medicare for All
She continues to claim that this will cost “not one penny in middle-class tax increases.” Even Bernie Sanders called her out on that assertion.
Here’s how progressive policies like Medicare for All could affect American middle-class taxpayers
If the U.S. adopted a European-style tax system to fund federal entitlement programs, single U.S. workers making $40,000 would see a $6,000 increase in income tax, according to a Heritage Foundation report.
Roper: Vermont education ‘reforms’ not helping test scores
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), aka the Nation’s Report Card, scores are out, and, sadly, it seems I write this same blog post every two years: scores dropped again for Vermont students in all categories.
McClaughry: The latest climate stealth tax
A month from now the most audacious reactionary liberalism idea for 2020 will be unveiled. It’s called the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI). The driving force behind it is, of course, the perceived pressing need to combat the Menace of Climate Change.
Why LBJ’s Great Society gets a failing grade in improving education
“Since 1965 when the Great Society launched, we have seen federal education spending quadruple, and yet that achievement gap remains [the same] between poor children and the more affluent kids today, a four-year gap in learning,” Burke said.
John Klar: Carbon tax credits — selling indulgences to polluting corporations
Carbon tax credits are nothing more than modern-day indulgences issued for money by government regulators. There is no “incentive” when a polluter buys a tract of forest to “offset” its toxins. It is merely an illusion, a payoff for the right to sin against the planet.
Daily Chronicle: Last Friday, employees at 200 VT companies missed their paychecks — what happened?
Direct deposit is like a car engine that only gets our attention when it doesn’t work. But like an engine, direct deposit has plenty of hidden, moving parts. Sometimes they stop working.