Last week’s storm and related power outages remind us that no matter how sophisticated our technology systems and networks are, we all rely on the regular, efficient delivery of electricity.
We can add a possible tax increase to the list of reasons not to adopt a $15 minimum wage.
I have been teaching since 1992, and this will be my last year. The reason I am leaving is that I can no longer allow myself to be subjected to the foul language and disrespect I hear in schools on a daily basis. To stay would be to go against everything I believe in.
We are, alas, well into the era of bitter partisan conflict with high stakes, improbable revenue projections, irreducible federal spending and steadily growing national debt. The current bill will make large and worthwhile changes in the tax code, but falls short of restoring a bright fiscal future.
Ah, the Green Mountain Care Board, that omnipotent group that was set up to have “stewardship” over health care decisions because “no one was in charge” of making such decisions. The result is that we now have a single remaining health care reform company.
If House Republicans are successful at passing The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it will mark the first time in more than three decades that Americans will have a chance to experience the benefits of comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform.
As president of the Senate, Pence has the power to sidestep a procedural practice that stands to threaten tax reform, just as it threatened every Republican Obamacare repeal and replace attempt in 2017.
What Miller, Barlow and their organizations are trying to sell Vermonters is the notion that by taking $10 from you and giving you back $9, they are somehow putting “money in Vermonters’ pockets.” It’s insulting.
The late, great Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman said it best: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Friedman’s pithy proverb reminds us that there is also no “free health care.”
Sex reassignment is as natural as being born, some in the media tell us. And many Americans are buying it. But a growing chorus of dissenters made up of physicians, researchers, and even transgender individuals is beginning to paint a far different picture of the truth.
Too much intermittent renewable power causes increasing problems of grid management, as is the case from Vermont to Australia.
From out of the proverbial left field, the state has introduced a new requirement that is as unnecessary as it is certain to kill the project.