My father’s approach wasn’t contrarianism for its own sake. The point was to challenge listeners out of complacency, to inspire them not by affirming what they knew to be true, but by provoking them into reconsidering their preconceptions.
This broad, bipartisan support for reining in civil forfeiture is reflected in the population at large. One recent poll found that 84 percent of Americans oppose forfeiture of property without a criminal conviction.
Aside from the caterwauling on the left side of the House and predictions of our moon exploding and destroying all life on the planet because taxes might be cut, reform of one kind or another is inevitable. Why? Because it’s not really the revenue side of the equation that’s the bulk of the problem. It’s the spending.
Many people are worried that companies like Netflix will raise prices now that the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to repeal internet regulations imposed by the agency in 2015. But is this fear of more expensive video-streaming services due to the reversion of policy legitimate?
As employers, we have the responsibility and legal obligation to ensure that sexual harassment is not tolerated in our companies. This has reminded me that all Vermont companies must have policies regarding sexual harassment in the workplace.
In this country, due process is among the most important rights we enjoy. Rights of the accused are vitally important in order to ensure innocent people are not punished.
Vermont’s personal income tax revenues are down $6.41 million below forecasts. We have to ask how can this be given that the national economy is booming with 3 percent or better growth for three straight quarters, the stock market is at record highs, and Vermont’s unemployment numbers are at record lows.
With a new company set to take over Burlington Telecom and the Federal Communications Commission about to decide the fate of net neutrality, one city councilor says he’s worried that Obama-era internet regulations might not exist much longer for Vermont’s largest city.
“Getting rid of government authority over the internet is the opposite of authoritarianism. Government control is the defining feature of authoritarianism, including the one in North Korea.”
“What I’m proposing to do is to get rid of those regulations and to return to the bipartisan light-touch framework that governed the internet starting in the Clinton administration and continuing all the way to 2015.”
The mandate was always more of a “nanny tax” than a way to raise government funding. Democrats included it in the law to force the young and healthy to buy into the government-run health exchanges so as to offset the high cost of the old and very sick.
Nuclear stations deliver steady, safe, reliable dispatchable baseload power to the grid, accompanied by almost no greenhouse gas emissions.