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Roper: Surgery Center vs. GMCB illustrates how bad certificate of need laws really are

Vermont has more areas of health care subject to certificate of need laws than any other state, and we have some of the highest health care costs. This is not a coincidence. We should get rid of our CON laws, and, while we’re at it, the Green Mountain Care Board.

December 17, 2019 in Commentary.
The Architect of the Capitol

Justice Neil Gorsuch said ‘Merry Christmas’ on television and people are going crazy

Leftwing critics suggested the justice was signaling his sympathies with people disturbed at the secularization of American public life by saying “Merry Christmas” instead of its capacious alternative “Happy Holidays.”

December 17, 2019 in U.S..
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‘Medicare for All’ actually isn’t Medicare at all

If every provision of Medicare for All rolled out smoothly, millions of American seniors necessarily would have their current health care stripped from them and replaced with whatever the Department of Health and Human Services decides is health care.

December 17, 2019 in Commentary.

EAI joins regional-national coalition opposing the Transportation Climate Initiative

The Ethan Allen Institute has played a key role in putting together a multi-state collaborative in opposition to the TCI carbon tax. Today these organizations released the following open letter.

December 17, 2019 in Press Release.

FISA report was so damning that FBI’s top lawyer during Russia probe felt ‘distressed’ after reading it

Former FBI general counsel James Baker said Monday that he felt “distressed” after reading the Justice Department inspector general’s report laying out “significant” errors and omissions in the bureau’s applications to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

December 17, 2019 in U.S..
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Vermont Agency of Education introduces new program to measure student progress

The Vermont Agency of Education is partnering with a North Carolina software company to measure student progress and provide better learning and career guidance for parents and students.

December 16, 2019 in TNR News.
Wikimedia Commons/Erum Patel

Daily Chronicle: New Harvard anti-car study decries expensive subsidies of ‘car culture’

A new report from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government says cars are bad, bad, bad for the economy. How bad? In Massachusetts alone, the study says, the “car culture” costs residents $64 billion per year.

December 16, 2019 in TNR News.
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Reports: Consumers still carrying debt from last holiday season, expected to spend $1.1 trillion this holiday season

About 35 million Americans still have holiday credit card debt left over from last year, according to WalletHub’s 2019 Holiday Shopping Survey. The personal finance site projects consumers will spend as much as $1.1 trillion this holiday season.

December 16, 2019 in U.S..
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House Democrats’ College Affordability Act would drive up college costs even further

This proposal would replicate, and in some cases double down on, the unwise policies that led to our current $1.6 trillion student debt crisis. Americans simply cannot afford the College Affordability Act.

December 16, 2019 in Commentary.
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These 3 countries tried socialism. Here’s what happened.

Socialists are fond of saying that socialism has never failed because it has never been tried. But in truth, socialism has failed in every country in which it has been tried.

December 16, 2019 in Commentary.
Meg Hansen

Conservative activist Meg Hansen to run for lieutenant governor of Vermont

Meg Hansen, a former executive director of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom and current TV host and political commentator, is running for lieutenant governor.

December 15, 2019 in TNR News.
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McClaughry: The revived debate over ‘socialism’

Whether today’s national electorate will join Bernie Sanders and the candidates of the Democratic Party in their march ever further toward “democratic socialism” remains to be seen.

December 15, 2019 in Commentary.

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