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Statement on Gov. Peter Shumlin’s 2012 State of the State Address

…public infrastructure are key to Vermont’s economic future. We disagree with his comments about taxes, however. Vermont is not a high-tax state: a typical Vermonter would pay higher taxes in…

Vermont’s Middle Class: The Facts

…was seeing a net loss of jobs. This poor showing occurred in a decade when the wealthiest Vermonters—the so-called “job creators”—saved hundreds of millions in federal taxes thanks to the…

New report on working Vermont: Reverse priorities to put people first

…of the government’s capacity to measure the effectiveness of public programs and services. Public Assets Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes sound budget and tax policies to benefit…

State of Working Vermont 2011

…homeowners under Vermont’s school funding law. Such a change would increase taxes on middle-income Vermonters and lower taxes for second-home owners and for those in the highest income brackets. It…

School Taxes Based on Income, 2011

…their school taxes to household income. The map shows the 2011 income-based school tax rates in each town. All school taxes in Vermont are state taxes and go to the…

Statement on LIHEAP funding

…raising taxes, which are now at the lowest level since the early 1950s. It was just a year ago that Congress and the Obama administration extended the Bush era tax…

Where there’s a will there’s a way

…estimates its annual receipts at current tax rates and then decides what it can and can’t do. We’re still waiting, for example, for the state to investigate the backlog of…

As General Fund support drops, school taxes rise

…“If overall school spending can be held level for another year,” he said, “that could help keep tax rates and taxes paid level as well.” Not exactly—unless the governor is…

What happened to putting people first?

…adopting fiscal policies to achieve that vision. Tax policy has become a mindless mantra of “no new taxes” even in the face of greater human need, the greatest income disparity…

Measuring will help the state manage

…priorities they set—starting with tax and budget policies—that will shape Vermont’s future. A gift because the Census data provide the beginnings of a performance measurement system that Vermont desperately needs…

Vermont Education Spending: The Facts (2011 Update)*

…2007. Even with modest education spending growth, property taxes have had to cover the shortfalls in the General Fund transfer and dedicated taxes. In 2005, property taxes paid 61 percent…

Lessons from ’27: Crisis as Opportunity

…comes in at current tax rates, regardless of Vermonters’ needs or larger economic conditions. Pay-as-you-go meant that while Vermont shouldn’t spend money it didn’t have, the state could raise taxes…