Vermont’s new Upper Connecticut River Basin plan is not just another environmental report. It could shape five years of projects, funding, road work, stormwater controls, town bylaws, and land-use priorities. Vermonters have until July 15 t
RAD-VT is helping move Vermont’s dead “Tax the Rich” bill into election season. H.794 would have added income surcharges above $250,000 AGI, treated joint filers the same as single filers, and created a nonhomestead residential property-tax
The climate modeling community is backing away from the extreme emissions scenarios that helped drive years of climate alarm. As Vermont continues enforcing the Global Warming Solutions Act and debating the Clean Heat Standard, questions re
America’s high healthcare costs are not just a domestic failure — they help subsidize cheaper systems abroad. While countries like Switzerland, Norway, and Canada negotiate lower prices, U.S. patients and insurers pay inflated rates for dru
Vermont's per capita income has tracked 5–8 points below New Hampshire for 50 years — a gap that didn't exist before Act 250. A synthetic control analysis using federal income data puts the cumulative floor at $43 billion in foregone person
Vermont's education spending has climbed to $2.2 billion while K-12 enrollment fell by 25,000 students since 2005. Property taxes spiked 18.5% in one year. Now Act 73's mandatory consolidation is effectively dead, replaced by H.955 — a volu
The Laffer Curve describes how tax rates and government revenue interact, suggesting there’s a tipping point where higher taxes can reduce total collections. While the concept is widely accepted, where that tipping point actually sits remai
A stalled proposal to increase taxes on second homes has resurfaced in Montpelier, this time as amendment language tied to active legislation. Lawmakers are now weighing whether to move forward with a tax structure originally linked to Act
Act 73 promised a new education funding system—but only after Vermont created larger school districts. That never happened. Instead, after years of work and hundreds of thousands in public spending, lawmakers are advancing a different model
Sanders and Khanna want a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires, citing Musk as the poster child. But Musk's companies directly employ roughly 160,000 people — about half of Vermont's entire workforce — and the $42 billion headline tax would
Most Vermont parents have never heard of the Trump Account, but every U.S. citizen baby born between 2025 and 2028 qualifies for a free $1,000 federal contribution that grows in an S&P 500 index fund until age 18. Here's how the program wor
Vermont's climate flips the environmental math on AI data centers. Closed-loop cooling, buried construction, and six months of free cooling from winter air eliminate the water use and noise that drive data center fights elsewhere. Waste hea
