The Legislature is moving to put an astounding 170,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030, create a $1,200 per-child child tax credit, conserve 50 percent of Vermont’s total land area by 2050, pass a “clean heat standard,” and more.
Vermont’s Senate has embraced an “act relating to environmental justice,” which seeks to redistribute the costs of environmental pollutants from the city mice to the country mice, while punishing white people who live where there is fresh air for the sin of country living.
Some of those voting no believe that children who are not legal adults are not ready to make fully informed decisions relating to voting or mature enough to hold positions of authority and responsibility over critical municipal decisions, such as property taxes.
Who benefits from internal combustion engine bans and electric vehicle (EV) mandates and who gets hurt? Can the government force society to give up superior forms of energy and technology? Are EVs in fact eco-friendly?
Seattle Children’s Hospital has followed up on adolescent patients who experienced post-COVID vaccination myocarditis. The patients respond well to treatment but show some evidence of permanent damage to the heart.
President Biden has released a budget proposal that includes 36 tax increases on families and businesses totaling $2.5 trillion over the next decade. Alarmingly, this includes 11 tax increases on the oil and gas industry.
These legislators do not seek to shield public servants from unprotected threatening speech, but to intimidate the public for engaging in protected speech that criticizes social justice.
How is the PUC going to be able to verify that these half a million actions take place all over the state, assign a unique credit value and shelf life to each, and broker sales, track the ownership of, and then retire those credits when they expire?
“Over the past century, deaths per million people from weather and climate catastrophes have dropped by 97%. Losses from global weather disasters as a percent of GDP have declined over the past 30 years.”
S.254, an act relating to recovering damages for Article II violations by law enforcement and a report on qualified immunity, passed in the State Senate on March 24, 2022, by a vote of 19-11.
Legislators found out this week that the Vermont child tax credit bill may need a haircut. The workforce development bill received such a large haircut that we may have a headless horseman situation.
There are three things that I see fundamentally separate Vermont Republicans from the Progressive Democrat alliance that currently controls the Legislature: affordability, accountability and flexibility.