Burlington City Council on Monday heard what the public thinks about a charter change proposal to eliminate regulation of prostitution in the city — and many people argued prostitution and the sex trade are inseparable, despite some councilors’ claims to the contrary.
If the math works, why pay the tax in Vermont when you can hop the border and save some cash? New Hampshire businesses will build then near the border to make it as easy as possible.
For the past 12 years states from around the country have been taking time to recognize the critical impact that school choice has on the lives of young students. Republican Gov. Phil Scott has named this week “School Choice Week” here in Vermont.
A tuition ban cannot succeed without also including an eminent domain state expropriation of several independent schools which fulfill a public school role in their regions, likely including some or all of the so-called “town academies.”
In the midst of the so-called Great Resignation, the far left is calling for the abolishment of all work. Leftist politicians and activists call for the government to step in and create a massive welfare state to eliminate the need for Americans to work at all.
Vermont has at last found its diamond mine. It arrived in the form of half a billion in unspent American Rescue Plan funds, plus another $2.2 billion in the congressional infrastructure bill. In addition, our own tax base has produced a $320 million surplus across the three major funds.
Even though we have a tsunami of federal dollars available, we won’t solve Vermont’s two housing problems by building subsidized housing. We don’t want to build used cars. We do want to allow the building of market-rate residences in order to make housing available up and down the income spectrum.
A new program designed to keep Vermont homeowners in their homes is now open, Gov. Phil Scott said.
In its Jan. 23 legislative update, Campaign for Vermont offers an in-depth look at what lawmakers and the governor have planned for state pensions, fiscal responsibility, workforce and economic development, housing, good government and education.
The Vermont Right to Life annual march through Montpelier took place amid frigid temperatures Saturday afternoon, drawing about 250 people who heard speakers warn about Proposal 5, a constitutional amendment that would allow unrestricted abortion up until birth.
Vermont’s 6% sales tax compares terribly with New Hampshire’s 0% nonexistent sales tax. And a similar story for the income tax. The temptation to move over the border and pay no state income tax or sales tax should always loom large in legislators’ minds.
When we talk about Vermont’s nearly $6 billion unfunded liability, most of us think about the teachers’ and state employees’ pensions. But these two giant liabilities only account for half of the state’s total unfunded liabilities. Where’s the other half?