Statehouse Headliners: Is VPIRG ‘public interest’ or ‘special interest’?
Is it true the membership of the VPIRG board of directors shows a close affiliation with renewable energy industry and environmental special interests?
All Bernie Sanders’ plans combined could total a whopping $97.5 trillion over 10 years
Total government spending could jump to as much as 70% of GDP under Sanders’s spending plans and 50% of the U.S. workforce would work for the government, the Manhattan-based news outlet City-Journal reported Monday.
The New York Times is wrong. The rich pay more taxes than you do
By almost every measure, the U.S. has one of the most progressive systems of taxation in the world, in which high-income people pay the highest tax rates. Everyone agrees on this basic fact, except the New York Times.
McClaughry: Transportation Climate Initiative and the poor
I was gratified to read in John Greenberg’s comment to a VTDigger story that he finds a fatal flaw in the latest carbon tax scheme, the Transportation Climate Initiative, that I wrote about last January.
Dialogues with Meg Hansen: Zachary Zupan and Jamison Dunne discuss moderate Republicans
This week Meg sits down with Zachary Zupan and Jamison Dunne, two Vermont Republicans, to discuss the fallacy that to succeed in state politics a Republican must be a moderate.
‘That’s going to have a positive impact’: New Hampshire does well in ranking of states’ taxes
New Hampshire made the top 10 in a new Kiplinger report that ranked states on the basis of the states’ income, sales and property taxes. The surrounding states of Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts were named “Not Tax Friendly,” ranking in the bottom half of the survey.
Roper: Big carbon tax back on the table
This past Friday, Burlington’s Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger, flanked by VPIRG, announced support for a massive, statewide carbon tax on Vermonters, which would ultimately lead to a roughly $1.70 per gallon tax on home heating and vehicle fuels.
Guns and cannabis: The insidious creep of tyranny
Either we reclaim our constitutional heritage, or we collapse in barbaric anarchy that will make us wish we were instead at the fall of Rome. The prescription is to defend the Constitution against the insidious creep of tyranny.
State Headliners: Vermont gasoline and diesel consumption 2.5X higher than estimated; haircut regs meant to protect barbers
If the multi-state, regional Transportation & Climate Initiative takes effect, and if Vermonters pay the 36 cents per gallon that Californians will pay under their similar “cap and trade” program, Vermont drivers could pay an extra $137 million per year.
Warren celebrates Indigenous People on Columbus Day
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren celebrated indigenous people on Columbus Day, saying in a tweet, “We owe them our respect.”
The truth about Christopher Columbus
A wave of cities have decided to remove Columbus Day from the calendar and replace it with “Indigenous Peoples Day.” Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer credited with discovering America, is under attack figuratively and literally.
Opinion: Why new Medicare reforms offer superior alternative to ‘Medicare for All’
The president’s executive order comprises a broad range of reforms and directives that, taken together, have the effect of lightening the burden of government on the practice of health care.