Vermont Economy at a Glance

  • FY12 Budget Shortfall: $176 million, or 14%
    • One Family's Share: $1,132
  • Population: 621,760   Unemployment Rate: 6.2%   Poverty Rate: 9.4%
  • Median Household Income: $50,619
  • Potential Public Revenue from tax on natural resource extraction: $1,2 Billion / year
    • One Family's Share: $7,720 yearly
    • Currently collected by corporations tax-free
  • Cumulative Afghan & Iraq War Cost to Vermont:
    • $1,724,493,495 ...Not counting the cost of the illegal war in Libya!
    • One Family's Share: $11,904
Full Documentation on the Cost of War to Vermont families courtesy of CostOfWar.com.
Feb 262011
 
Monopoly & the Blue Ribbon Tax Commission

This is my personal response to the report of the partisan Blue Ribbon Tax Commission, to the Vermont Legislature. The response of Professor Gary Flomenhoft of the UVM Gund Institute is here and well worth reading, as it illustrates point-by-point that Vermont has far to go in reforming our tax codes. The foremost question is, [...]

Feb 192011
 
Where our taxes go

Thought our taxes went to build roads and schools? Oliver Wendell Holmes was wrong, our federal taxes do not buy us civilisation. Tax receipts go to fund the Federal Reserve Corporation’s ponzi scheme. A scheme that’s kept North America in a state of perpetual war for the past century. Vermont’s share of the Pentagon budget [...]

Feb 172011
 
She had me right until the end

Propaganda. Politics. Are you getting a sense of how it works? We’ve got a Legislature run by major parties and their corporate lobbyists, who will do anythingfor handouts from major corporations, just to balance their bloated budget. At the moment they’re not listening to actual Vermonters with proven alternatives. Vote ‘em out!