While laudable in the goals expressed, S.261 is just empty words when you consider where they are coming from. They are just another example of “official caring” by people living in a cloud, whose liberal policies in many instances are those that have caused the problems in the first place.
We are concerned about six weeks of paid family leave, we continue to oppose increasing the minimum wage, and we’re against transferring partial funding of education to a new income tax surcharge. We also oppose broad liability for toxic substances.
A single parent earning minimum wage has access to resources of roughly $45,000 a year, including benefits such as state and federal earned income tax credits, food stamps, and childcare subsidies. This is an amount roughly equivalent to the after-tax resources of someone who earns a salary of $52,000.
The history of guns, gun control and the Second Amendment is the topic of this week’s episode of “The Right Side of History,” a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past.
Merging means change, and in Vermont and elsewhere, change can be a daunting experience. For many, the way in which to deal with it is to ignore it. When that is the case, it might very well place the nonprofit in danger of not being able to continue to carry out its mission.
Unlike the youth who spoke out for gun control during the March for Our Lives weekend, here are students whose first instinct in making schools safer is not to call for stricter gun controls.
How important is international trade to Vermont’s economy? According to a report from the Business Roundtable, international trade, including exports and imports, supports 92,502 Vermont jobs – more than 1 in 5.
Windham Regional Commission and the Town of Vernon now have the ability to plan for a future in which redevelopment may begin in as early as 10 years.
So why aren’t we moving rapidly toward direct primary care coupled with independent specialist centers, paid for by health savings accounts and backed up by high deductible health plans?
Why lawmakers would consider — let alone pass — a law that they know will both drag on the overall economy and have significant negative impacts on the state’s most vulnerable businesses and citizens is mind-boggling.
Support for the carbon tax outside the Statehouse is driven primarily by influential big donors from the renewable energy industry. These folks would benefit mightily from a carbon tax.
The omnibus spending bill set to be released Monday will likely contain a provision that would send Obamacare insurers $10 billion in “reinsurance” payments a year for three years — 2019, 2020, and 2021. That’s a bailout.