Democrats spent a $100 million surplus, are spending another $22 million in DMV fees that the DMV never asked for, will be adding a new $130 million child care program that will add a first-ever payroll tax to the paycheck of every worker in Vermont, and plan to add another 70 cents to $4 per gallon to our fuel bills.
On Friday the Vermont Senate passed a bill that includes substantial changes to election laws, including online voting among other provisions.
The supermajority are not respecting their constituents and are acting as a swarm driven by ideology instead of being representatives and protectors of the people.
The Vermont House and Senate often disagree on what priorities should be or the best way to pay for a program, but on this point they heartily agree: they themselves deserve a lot more money.
When Gov. Phil Scott vetoed S.5, the clean heat standard bill, he needed to convince at least one senator to change his or her position or four or five more representatives. In the end, no senators switched, and four representatives did — only to oppose Scott, not support him.
A Democrat legislator has proposed a bill requiring mandatory licensing, registration and insurance of firearms in Vermont.
Vermont lawmakers are seeking to give workers increased protections when it comes to collective bargaining and union organizing through a bill that has passed in the Senate with a number of changes since it was introduced.
In the week before the House vote, the Ethan Allen Institute polled 300 registered Vermont voters online and by telephone. Only 189 knew something about the bill but of those, 40% opposed the legislation, with only 27% favoring.
Needing a two-thirds majority vote to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of Senate Bill 5 on Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 107-42 to pass the measure, which one public policy group said could cost Vermonters billions of dollars in the coming years.
S.5 is clearly very regressive, leading race activists to criticize it strongly. But these experienced voices are trumped by children whose brains are undeveloped and who have never had to pay rent, heat or real estate taxes from money earned with their own labor.
Make no mistake. This law will develop a case of mission creep in successive legislatures as progressive gun grabbers in Montpelier find new and exciting definitions for “legal activity” and “civil disorder.” You can count on it.
The public policy group said that while 31% of those polled strongly opposed the bill, only 13% strongly supported the legislation.