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By Guy Page
Lt. Gov. John Rodgers (R-Vermont) said on Facebook Monday night he opposes the Trump tariffs because of reports they will cost the average Vermont household $3,800.
“Vermonters cannot afford another $3800 a year to subsidize the President’s games…..Hard to believe I find myself agreeing with the likes of [billionaire investor Bill] Ackman and [media commentator Ben] Shapiro, but, yet here we are,” Rodgers said.
Rodgers, a former Democrat elected as Lt. Governor in 2024, has been critical of Trump in the past, including what he called an attack on the free speech of the news media. When asked to explain, Rodgers cited Trump’s lawsuit for defamation against a major news network and DOGE’s proposed defunding of the U.S. funded Voice of America.
Rodgers was elected with the support of Gov. Phil Scott, who also is an outspoken critic of the Republican president.
In his Facebook post, Rodgers cited a Washington Post article citing Shapiro saying “The president’s vision of international trade is, I’m sorry to say, mistaken. So this is a massive tax increase on American consumers. That’s what it is. And it is designed to be so.” Shapiro added the tariff is “probably unconstitutional.”
A White House press release published five days ago stated that the Trump tariffs during his first term had very little inflationary impact: “According to the Economic Policy Institute, the tariffs implemented by President Trump during his first term “clearly show[ed] no correlation with inflation” and had only a fleeting effect on overall prices.”
Social media commentary on Rodgers’ post, made at 7;12 PM, was mostly disagreeing with Rodgers. One of the gentler reproofs: “Ole Trump has been right about a lot of things. Probably should just hold back and watch.”
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For Lt. Governor Rodgers to agree, only four days ago, that politics should not be a part of our public schools, to now base his economic position on, of all organizations, the Yale Budget Lab’s purely speculative and political assessment of President Trump’s tariffs, while at the same time ignoring what the President and his administration actually say on the matter, gives me pause.
Where was Mr. Rodgers’ critical assessment when the very real inflation created by the Biden administration’s Covid spending, its oxymoronic Inflation Reduction Act, and its Bird Flu panic, inflated consumer prices twice as much as the Yale Budget Lab’s purely speculative assessment of Trump’s tariffs?
The proof will be in the pudding. Not in Mr. Rodgers’ apparently wavering common sense.
Most democrats are against the tariffs. Even if they do have an R next to their name.
I would change that to anyone with a fundamental understanding of economic is against the tariffs. Libs are against Tariffs because Trump. Never MAGA conservatives are against tariffs because they can do math.
Roger’s may have fooled many, but I knew that donkey would appear sooner or later. YUP, here we are . . . . .
SURPRISE ❗
I voted for that RINO hoping he wasn’t what I had heard. But Zuckermen would be the same so on we go with the democrats lying as always.
You will know in a few weeks how much damage has been done on your retirement funds.
We have parrot in Montpelier doing the bidding of the New World order, ironically brought in by poppy Bush. You’d think it would be banned in Vermont, but as we are witnessing there is power in propaganda, my smart phone tells me how to think, there fore I am smart.
Perhaps Roger’s should read ‘The Art Of The Deal’. Trump saw what earlier POTUS were doing to the financial health of America back in the 80’s. Trump was quite vocal about that and knew even back then the strategy America needed to embrace. It involved bringing jobs back to America and tariffs to offset the tariff’s from other countries. Here we are, and the master of the deal is POTUS. Mr Roger’s if you don’t learn from history, you will be destined to repeat its mistakes. In Trump’s 1st term (2017-2020) the Democrats said the tariffs Trump installed would cripple the country. The interest rates fell, jobs started to return when the corporate taxes dropped, and there were thousands of new jobs, gas prices were low, and inflation went down.
John Rodgers had been in the Vermont legislature for 18 years. The deficit in 2009 was roughly $82 million and now is running roughly $5 Billion. This clearly demonstrates Mr. Rodgers is more interested in political games than the will or well-being of the Vermont taxpayers. Have a seat Mr. Rodgers.
The wolf in sheep’s clothing now in lock step with the uniparty.
Hmm….John, you might want to re-think where that “additional $3800” number comes from. Well, it’s the Budget Lab at Yale University, fully staffed by former Biden officials,Chief Economist Danny Yagan, President Natasha Sarin, and Executive Director Martha Gimbel.
Wow. You mean the Democrats say a Trump program will cost Americans money? I’d never have guessed.
WOW Shocker!!
The long time “Democrat” Vermont Lieutenant Governor who conveniently turned Republican to win his position in 2024 is opposed to common sense fairness and the rebuilding of America?
Please ……. Say it isn’t so …………..
And sadly the entire. Vtgop shilled for him as the new savior of the party! Yes, yes he will win the next election.
What people didn’t pick up, he is the savior of the uniparty! Montpelier loves the uniparty, please make no changes to the status quo!
Sold down the river yet again. More taxes, nor crime, more drug abuse, more child abuse, more business abuse, more monopolies, more non profits, it’s almost like a planned destruction. But then it is, it’s Marxism.
It’s subverting a perfectly good republic.
Oil now down to $60/barrel. Maybe they don’t drive or build stuff or eat in New Haven. Or Montpelier.
I know huh? Roads = oil. Plastic = oil. Just those alone and we’d be sunk. Heat and transportation? Yeah we could use a few less plastics, etc. it was and isn’t about being better stewards of the earth, it’s about power and money. You can tell, all the people pushing it are all about power and money, jets, yachts, mansions, islands, wanting to control every thing you see, think and all your money too!
Truly we are sheep, many are following the wrong Shepard, which is too bad.
1.2 Trillion Dollar Deficit !! So we should continue to take products from other countries that do not allow our products in their countries?? What a Joke Mr Rodgers is !
It goes to show that you can’t trust a democrat especially when they say they are a republican. Rogers said the party left him, I guess they returned and got him back. Another fake politician pandering to the loonie left. There are 640,000 people in Vermont and because a few thousand agitators show up in Montpeculiar we are supposed to believe this is a movement. It’s 2016 repeating itself. Instead of burning cities they are destroying Tesla cars. The democrats are the party of violence and John Rogers is no republican.
Rogers is a sheep in sheep’s clothing. No principles either. Many that voted for him are Trump supporters. It was a one shot deal. Never again.
Just another panican…..
Re: Lt. Gov. John Rodgers (R-Vermont) said on Facebook Monday night he opposes the Trump tariffs because of reports they will cost the average Vermont household $3,800.
Why the R next to his name? He is no R. He is a P that was a D and ran as an R. Put in office by the stoopid people that voted for him.
“A leopard can’t change its spots, and a skunk can’t change its smell”. D.B. Wilmer
and it stinks to the high heavens in Montpelier.
Gaslighting 101. Reports of 3800 per household but no proof. But the sheep won’t look into it. And yet the reason we can’t another 3800 per household is because our corrupt legislature already has taxed us to death.