Commentary: What the Decarbonization Study Found
By John McClaughry Last summer the Joint Fiscal Office awarded a legislatively mandated contract to Resources for the Future, a Washington consulting firm, “to analyze the costs and...
Survey: Should the VT Legislature Pass A Carbon Tax?
Last year the legislature paid a firm $120,000 to study a Vermont Carbon Tax. The results are in. What do you say? Move forward, or kill the Carbon...
Commentary: Stamping Out Carbon Dioxide Emissions
By John McClaughry Last September the Legislature underwrote a $120,000 contract to a Washington DC firm named Resources for the Future, that specializes in analyzing the economic impact...
Commentary: Paid Family Leave Proposal Shows Why Vermont is Unaffordable
January, 2019 By Rob Roper As a result of the November 2018 elections, Vermont Democrats and Progressives achieved veto-proof majorities in both chambers of the legislature. Their first...
EAI Releases Study of How the ESSEX Carbon Tax Would Impact VT Households
For Immediate Release September 18, 2018 Contacts: Rob Roper, rob@ethanallen.org David Flemming, david@ethanallen.org EAI Releases Study of How the ESSEX Carbon Tax Would Impact VT Households To Read EAI’s...
Seven ESSEX Carbon Tax Profiles: What A Carbon Tax Means For You
August 30, 2018 By David Flemming To view all ESSEX Carbon Tax Profiles as a multiple-page PDF, click HERE. Our seventh Carbon Tax Profile looks at Tim Davis. Tim...
VT Legislator Roll Call Profiles
Are Your Representatives Representing YOU? See How They Voted on Key Issues. INTRODUCTION The following collection of Legislator Roll Call Vote Profiles is brought to you as...
The ESSEX Plan: Symbolic Environmentalism That Will Impose Economic Harm on Vermonters
by Jonathan A. Lesser, PhD I was asked by Vermont’s Ethan Allen Institute to prepare an economic analysis of The ESSEX Plan, the most recent carbon tax proposal...
