"At a rally at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier, organizers had to shovel 7 inches of snow from the steps before the event. About 200 people turned out dressed as if they were going ice fishing or to a late-season Packers football game."
"People fought to give me — a millionaire — a tax cut this year," [Legend] said. "I didn’t need it. And all the other millionaires didn’t need it either."
"We need to stand together to support the people who work every day to ensure that the air we breathe and the water we drink is safe," Shahla Werner, director of the Sierra Club’s Badger State chapter."
"The [State] budget must stop the tax cuts for the rich, cut corporate welfare, and eliminate unaccountable and duplicative public authorities."
Coalition??
“When we consider the budget cuts over the last few years and the impact it’s brought to human services and other critical roles in state government, it’s clear we must find an alternative to more cuts,” Pearson said.
Burlington Free Press
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