Simple and fair

Montpelier should be trying to make the education tax system simpler and fairer.  But Republican Gov. Jim Douglas is proposing changes that would make the system more complicated and less fair: He’d increase taxes on middle-income Vermonters and lower them on wealthier ones.

Sound crazy? Then how about this: The Democratic-controlled House appears to be moving in the same direction.

Read Paul Cillo’s op-ed, from the Mar. 14 Times Argus and Rutland Herald.