Roper: OneCare Vermont – scrap it now
We now have a feel for how this massive government intrusion into the health care market is working. It isn’t. It’s time to pull the plug on this program now, before it gets to be “too big to fail.”
Mark Heinrichs: Practical politics for conservatives, independents and libertarians
The deep fault with modern leftist politics is that it always involves us giving up our rights, money, power, free speech and thoughts to politicians who really, really want it. They don’t deserve that power and they won’t use it well.
McClaughry: California’s lessons for Vermont
We should not emulate California’s practices for dealing with homelessness, stop forcing our utilities to buy renewable energy at twice the market price, steer clear of costly programs to promote “global climate solutions,” and get serious about reducing the $4.5 billion unfunded liabilities of our own state employee and teachers retirement funds.
Deb Billado: Carbon tax on agenda again
We all know a carbon tax would especially hurt lower-income Vermonters who can’t afford expensive electric vehicles, as well as rural Vermonters who have to make long commutes for work or are unable to rely on public transportation.
Roper: PC police sucking the joy out of childhood
Edmunds Elementary School in Burlington, so reports WPTZ, has decided to cancel its annual Halloween parade. Sadly, I doubt anybody is surprised by this.
Opinion: Ranked-choice voting doesn’t rank as real election reform
Progressives are floating yet another election reform: It’s called ranked-choice voting. This idea is so bad, even some dyed-in-the-wool liberals reject it.
John Klar: Why are youth climate activists the greatest polluters?
Perhaps conservation — of water, computer and phone use, gasoline, electricity, food — should be taught in school, and children could contribute solutions rather than be encouraged by adults to skip school to gripe.
How Trump’s new executive orders protect the public against the administrative state
President Donald Trump’s new executive orders secure individual liberty through the advancement of timeless, nonpartisan principles, such as fair notice, due process, transparency, accountability, and rigorous analytical decision-making.
The New York Times is wrong. The rich pay more taxes than you do
By almost every measure, the U.S. has one of the most progressive systems of taxation in the world, in which high-income people pay the highest tax rates. Everyone agrees on this basic fact, except the New York Times.
McClaughry: Transportation Climate Initiative and the poor
I was gratified to read in John Greenberg’s comment to a VTDigger story that he finds a fatal flaw in the latest carbon tax scheme, the Transportation Climate Initiative, that I wrote about last January.
Roper: Big carbon tax back on the table
This past Friday, Burlington’s Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger, flanked by VPIRG, announced support for a massive, statewide carbon tax on Vermonters, which would ultimately lead to a roughly $1.70 per gallon tax on home heating and vehicle fuels.
Guns and cannabis: The insidious creep of tyranny
Either we reclaim our constitutional heritage, or we collapse in barbaric anarchy that will make us wish we were instead at the fall of Rome. The prescription is to defend the Constitution against the insidious creep of tyranny.