Commentary: Will Credit Rating Downgrade Spark Pension Reform?
By Rob Roper On October 23, Moody’s, the investors credit service, downgraded Vermont’s bond rating from AAA to Aa1. This has significant implications for the state’s ability to...
Commentary: ESSEX Carbon Tax Carnage
By David Flemming A few months ago, Paul Burns of VPIRG proclaimed that “the ESSEX Plan (would make) the wealthiest and large corporations (to) pay their fair share as...
Commentary: The Big Hammer to Force Everyone to Buy Health Insurance
by John McClaughry The 2018 legislature, alarmed by the repeal by Congress of the Obamacare tax on persons who failed to buy government-approved health insurance, decided to impose...
Commentary: Unions vs. Teachers: Thoughts After Janus
By Rob Roper Following the Janus vs. AFSCME Supreme Court decision that ruled public sector unions can no longer force non-members to pay agency fees, both the unions...
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...
