Moore: Forests are an important part of our ecosystem and economy
The importance of the forest product industry in Vermont cannot be overstated. It adds approximately $1.5 billion to our gross domestic product.
Moore: Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce concerned about three bills at crossover time
We are concerned that measures like these will have a severely negative impact on the ability of businesses to attract and retain employees. We are also concerned about business decisions on whether or not to move to — or stay in — Vermont as a result of these bills.
Moore: It’s sugaring time
Daylight saving time is officially in place. The vernal equinox will be here next week. Baseball officially begins in two weeks. That can mean only one thing: It’s sugaring time.
Roper: Progressive policies are hurting middle class, rural Vermonters
The flood of proposed new taxes, regulations and curbs on traditional culture have something in common: they are almost universally hostile to low- and middle-income, rural, working Vermonters.
Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce opposes job-killing minimum wage bill
S.23 proposes raising the minimum wage to $11.50 on Jan. 1, 2020, and then annually until it reaches $15.00 on Jan. 1, 2024. Following those increases, the legislation calls for increases in the minimum wage of 5 percent or the percentage of increase of the Consumer Price Index.
Neil Johnson: ‘Vexit’ the fiscal insanity
The fiscal self-dealing, irresponsibility, insider trading and waste in Vermont is too epic to continue ignoring. We need to “Vexit” the fiscal insanity going on in our state.
Moore: Tourism spending’s impact on Vermont
In 2017, there were 13 million visitors to Vermont, and those visitors brought $2.8 billion into the state. This is the second largest amount of dollars imported into the state, second only to manufacturing.
Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax is another radically bad idea from the far left
Two of the most important rules of tax policy: Don’t discourage new investments and don’t discourage entrepreneurship. Wealth taxes break both rules.
New Hampshire business climate ranked 34th best, but Sununu proposals aim to improve conditions
The numbers under Sununu’s guidance, while less than ideal, mark a reversal of the trend during the four years of former Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan.
Roper: Millennials are getting screwed by progressive policies
So, millennials, it may seem nice that Senator Balint is putting her arm around you sympathetically and lamenting your plight. But, you might want to consider that she is the source of your pain.
Hansen: A critique of Vermont’s political economy
With “vilest hypocrisy,” to borrow Friedrich Engels’ words, the elites vanquish Vermont’s working men and women, and then create elaborate welfare traps in the name of self-virtue and compassion or charity.
Studies find millennials are worse off than their parents, represent ‘downward mobility’
Only 61 percent of those from the Generation X era earned more than their parents. Worse still, only 50 percent of those born in 1980, the early beginnings of millennials, earned more than their parents.