Seven Days reports this morning that the Scott Administration is directing agency and department heads to cut their annual budgets by 2 to 4 percent.
VSEA Executive Director Steve Howard correctly comments that, "[VSEA] think[s] state government is not adequately funded as it is now."
Let’s hope that tax fairness is part of the General Assembly’s plan to negate the need for another of these Administration-led, austerity-budget exercises.
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In a Brattleboro Reformer column/VTDigger post, Columnist Richard Davis takes aim at Governor Scott playing last-minute politics with teachers’ health care, writing, in part:
"But [Phil] Scott has become a different political person since he has assumed the role of governor. He has thrown the word compromise out of his political lexicon and he has shown an unwillingness to negotiate. Scott also has been showing a near total disregard for the political process."
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The myth that Vermont has more public employees per capita than most New England states was alive and well during last year’s campaign season, but it’s been debunked before and now it’s being debunked again in a new study to determine "public sector workers as a percentage of state’s total workforce" numbers for all states.
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