Todd Smith: Taxpayer return on investment
The annual study gave New Hampshire rave reviews. The Granite State ranked No. 1 of all 50 states for taxpayer Return On Investment. Vermont came in 42nd.
Keelan: Embezzled funds and taxes
It is quite demoralizing to honest taxpayers to constantly hear and read about how embezzlers can obtain $20,000 or $2 million illegally and get off tax-free.
Frenier: Government abuse of power
What liberals fail to grasp is that governments are greedy, too, but their greed is more about power than money. And governments’ greed for power makes them no less inherently corrupt than corporations.
Vermont town considers building government network to protect net neutrality
Public officials in the town of Brattleboro are considering building a government-owned internet network, in part, to protect so-called net neutrality.
Klar: It’s official — Vermont’s government has been usurped by elitist bureaucrats
Bureaucratic agencies have swollen in costs and powers in all areas of Vermonters’ lives: farms close, but the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets expands steadily. Schools are being closed, but administrative employees and costs increase relentlessly.
Deb Billado: Democratic lawmakers seek big pay raise
Even though we’re facing a more than $70 million budget gap, Vermont’s Democrat legislators want their own pay raised, and for you to foot the bill.
Audit: Dead people have been collecting billions from Social Security as it goes bankrupt
This month’s report found that the SSA issued $11.6 million in payments to a sampling of 149 beneficiaries and 4 representative payees who died in Puerto Rico from January 1992 through December 2016. Previous reports follow a similar pattern.
Vermont fraud expert says abuse is common as feds push food stamp reform
While the Trump administration is taking action to reduce food stamp fraud, the president’s critics are crying foul, and Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan is urging citizens to voice their opposition to coming changes in the program.
‘The Waste Report’ details $50 billion in questionable government spending
Taxpayer money supported a $10 million “Green Growth” initiative in Peru. More than $5.3 million of taxpayer money funded false claims for Superstorm Sandy in New York City, and $48 billion went toward improper Medicare payments.
Report: Small Business Administration squanders $24 billion in bad loans to non-small businesses
More than $24 billion in loans given out by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) have defaulted, an OpenTheBooks.com analysis found.
Averting the next federal fiscal train wreck
Looking at projections by the Congressional Budget Office — Congress’ official federal scorekeeper — one sees that the federal budget is on a rapid collision course with out-of-control deficits.
Open the Books: U.S. Department of Education wastes billions each year
“Federal funding is being poured into the nation’s richest colleges, the worst performing junior colleges, nontraditional colleges you didn’t know existed, for-profit schools, and more.”