Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax is another radically bad idea from the far left
Two of the most important rules of tax policy: Don’t discourage new investments and don’t discourage entrepreneurship. Wealth taxes break both rules.
Statehouse Headliners: Former NY Times journalist links heavy pot use with psychosis, violence
Pot, psychosis, and violence are connected. Heavy pot users are 3-4 times more likely to develop psychosis. People with psychosis are far more prone to violence when they consume drugs — and their favorite drug is marijuana.
Bucknam: H.57 and the ugly face of progressivism
Abortion for sex selection purposes, for organ harvesting, for medical research or experimentation, or even for eugenics will all be beyond the reach of the law. This bill also makes it legal for an aborted child who is born alive to be killed after its birth.
McClaughry: Stamping out carbon dioxide emissions
The ultimate question legislators need to wrestle with now is how much expense, disruption and grief are Vermonters willing to endure to produce no detectable effect on global climate, but only this symbolic triumph.
Guy Page: ‘Roadmap’ to decarbonizing VT reveals potholes, washouts for climate, poor people and state economy
The Legislature’s paid consultant says the proposed carbon taxes won’t work. Most Vermont emissions don’t come from a handful of power plant smokestacks; they come from hundreds of thousands of automotive tail pipes and furnaces and woodstove chimneys.
Frenier: On factions and Covington Catholic
The Kavanaugh hearings and now the Covington incident have sobered the general public who see their husbands, brothers and sons as increasingly subject to irrational attack. I was heartened by the almost immediate fact-based push back.
Roper: A ‘revenue neutral’ carbon tax? Not so much.
If anyone ever bought the notion that a Vermont carbon tax would be “revenue neutral,” or, if passed as such, would stay that way for very long, this week’s Statehouse activities should put that fantasy to bed for good.
Here are 10 reasons school choice is winning
Options are a good thing, especially when it comes to education. But today, most American parents remain at the whim of whatever district school they live in. Education choice gives students the opportunity to pick their own schooling option.
I’m a single mom from the city. School choice has changed my kids’ lives forever.
Fifteen years later, fellow parents and I have witnessed a sea change in our kids’ education, with more than 10,000 scholarships awarded to attend private schools. These scholarships have helped deserving low-income kids.
Flemming: Consultants understate the costs of a carbon tax
The researchers were asked directly, and admitted forthrightly, that they did not consider administrative costs when calculating the impact of the tax.
Smith: It’s all so ‘progressive’
As we’ve repeatedly said, the only thing “socialist” about Sanders is the way he’s raking in millions for not working.
McClaughry: The latest carbon tax rigged deal
Notice anything interesting about this lineup? These groups are the carbon tax spearhead in Vermont. They’ve worked furiously for four years to peddle the carbon tax, the ESSEX Plan, and numerous variations.