Governor Phil Scott Tuesday, February 27 issued the following statement regarding H.289, which could cost Vermonters $1 billion over the next decade.
“Acting to implement the Environmental Justice Law that the Legislature passed, and I signed, in 2022, the Public Service Department conducted a thorough 18-month public engagement process to understand Vermonters’ priorities for our clean and renewable electricity supply.
“Based on that work, the Department proposed a bill that would exceed H.289’s progress toward meeting emissions reductions required by the Global Warming Solutions Act. The cost of the Department’s proposal is projected to be substantially lower than the billion-dollar price tag that H.289 has been shown to potentially carry.
“In short, the Department did its job – it proposed a renewable energy reform bill that protects ratepayers while supporting state energy policy.
“Unfortunately, H.289, which had a lot of input from utilities, special interests, and their lobbyists, did not solicit policy input directly from Vermonters themselves. Nor was there any transparent consideration of the Department’s public engagement work.
“As Vermonters stare down an enormous increase in property taxes that I’ve worked to get ahead of for years, a $100 million payroll tax passed by the Legislature, a 20% increase in DMV fees, potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars more a year for the Legislature’s clean heat standard, and more, the last thing Vermonters can take is the risk of another billion dollars of costs being imposed on them by this Legislature. There is clearly a more affordable and equitable alternative to H.289. We can and should do better.”
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govie scott is all part of the same team/// dumb vermonters , pay your taxes and shut up/// black mail is a dirty business/// bribery is a dirty business///
Great thumping as usual.
So what is distressing is how the press let him and the others off so easily.
Oh, “It just happened.”
We are being robbed blind and they are pointing at orange man bad, he’s the cause, when he doesn’t work in any government capacity and has nothing to do with Vermont.
Just like in China, they lull the mouse with cheese and empty promises for a nation with no cats. Of course, our government schools are only too willing to comply.
Here’s a very bright woman who was conned, not anymore, this is how they do it.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/communist-cultural-revolution-happening-now-in-america-warns-chinese-immigrant/
This press release reads more like a gentle admonishment from Mom to a truculent teen.
perhaps phil scott thinks a gentle approach, like a liberal mother wanting their 9 year old to eat vegetables at dinner- will hold sway with this super-majority mob. Past bienniums have proven different, guv’ner. Vermont’s citizens deserve a governor that will at least attempt to stand firm, expose the corruption in the current legislative system and combat the marxist rabble inhabiting our Statehouse.
“I told you so” isn’t going to help us pay the bills the legislature is imposing- thru increased taxes and fees, costs for energy and the regulation imposed to deliver it.
The march toward a marxist, totalitarian state continues on- with phil scott standing on the curb- watching the clowns march by.
Perhaps, mr. governor- using examples we ill-informed peasants can understand-
what exactly would a billion dollars look like in our monthly electric bills? Please
add the ‘energy efficiency charge’, ‘current energy and major storm adjuster’, ‘extreme storm restoration fund’ and ‘electric assistance program fee’ as well as the VT State Tax to the true cost of electricity in Vermont. Perhaps tell us what the PSB has in mind for ratepayers to build electric infrastructure to accommodate the increased loads the legislature demands for charging BEV’s, switching to heat pumps and electric leaf blowers. Why not make public the anticipated and budgeted costs for electricity that state government will consume- and the increased tax burden to pay that bill also. Perhaps if the legislature had to defend their graft induced scheme, there might be less interest in forcing that scheme on the public. Legislative leadership seems to be well versed in directing the debate away from facts- maybe it’s past time to force facts upon the public and watch the result. Before “I told you so” can be said.
The Vermont legislative habit:
2012 $6.39 Billion
2013 $6.72 Billion
2014 $7.07 Billion
2015 $7.43 Billion
2016 $7.74 Billion
2017 $7.81 Billion
2018 $7.86 Billion
2019 $7.78 Billion
2020 $8.1 Billion
2021 $9.2 Billion (Covid Begins)
2022 $10.03 Billion
2023 $10.91 Billion (Covid Ends)
2024 $10.99 Billion (projected)
2025 $10.87 Billion (proposed)
Why doesn’t the Vermont budget return to some semblance of pre Covid levels now that the pandemic is over?
Hello, again. I’m a Vermont legislator, and I’m addicted to other people’s money.
And, hello back at you. I’m a Vermont voter, and I was stupid enough to vote for these addicts.
Your picture of the legislative habit is worth a thousand words.
According to Moody’s Aug. 2023 Report, Vermont has a stable economy but “has one of the slowest growing populations in the US and the most rapid decline in prime working age population (residents aged 25-54). Despite the small growth in this population over the past couple years, since 2000 the state’s prime working age population fell just over 14% and it has fallen nearly 7% since 2010. These are the highest rates of decline over these two periods among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.”
My questions are, how long will the economy remain stable, with growing homelessness and crime rate? How much will it cost to import remote workers @10,000 each to replace the working population loss, and how will that help the loss of critical workers in the trades? And why would any young person want to come to a state so willing to take so much of their earnings? That 10,000 moving bribe would disappear quickly into the property tax maw.
Maybe there’s reason for hope that I’m not seeing, but judging from my many years of experience living and working in VT, the state is making it far more difficult now to support a family and save for a decent retirement.
The thousand-word version:
Drug overdoses in Vermont have quadrupled since Peter Shumlin invested his entire State of the State address on the importance of dealing with the illicit use of drugs ten years ago.
Suicide rates among 15- to 24-year-old Vermonters doubled last year over the previous three-year average.
While Vermont invests the highest per capita taxpayer support in the U.S. for the State’s homeless, it has the highest per capita homelessness rate in the country.
The proposed Agency of Education total FY25 ‘education system spending’ of $2.66 Billion on 72,093 K thru 12th grade students equals $36,980 per student – highest per student cost in the nation.
The Agency of Education has more than 37,000 full-time equivalent employees, from bus drivers, to teachers, to student interventionists, to councilors, to para-educators, to secretaries, to principals, to superintendents… not counting subcontracted service providers in independent schools. That’s barely 2 students per staff member.
Only 46% of Vermont public school graduates meet minimum grade level standards in reading, writing, math, or science.
Parental rights in the public-school monopoly are virtually non-existent. The Vermont family unit is being decimated by legislative caveats.
It’s hard to fathom the extent to which the behavioral breakdown of our societal norms is accelerating. And still, public educators point their fingers at parents, even while they and their legislature enablers do everything they can to prevent them from being able to choose the education programs they believe are best for their children.
Call it what you will. This is nothing short of despotic tyranny.
Meaningless drivel from a powerless governor who is fully aware of the harm being done. It’s no mystery why people are flocking to support Trump.
This must be the progressive handbook, no matter what, never reduce any budget no matter what, as we are never held accountable !!
You vote for these inept fools year after year, but I’m not sure who the fools are ??
Wake up people, it’s your state not these fools under the Golden Doom………..Doom is an understatement.
ScIeNcE tells us that the alternative is the climatological destruction of the planet. When you put it in perspective, $1B is a small price to pay. Why do you want to kill our children, Governor?
Wood for heat.
Propane for cooking.
Electricity for all those gadgets…count them…how many do you have, including your EV? Eliminate, eliminate, eliminate until your bill is under 100 dollars.
No brainer for those who’ve still got an ounce of common sense through understanding “backup.”
I also use woodstoves that I can cook on… just sayin…
The Governor fully realizes that the demoProgs take the votes they get from ignorant Vermonters so for granted that they could not care less about what they think and only are concerned about their donor base of non-profit moonbat organizations. Even with the supermajority hanging over his head like a Sword of Damocles, Gov. Scott is the only thing standing between the citizenry and total leftist, fascist authoritarianism. God Bless him.
Entirely true, however it seems that scott’s rather subdued style of communication with the legislature isn’t working. Perhaps, some of the senate and house members he had a rapport with are not as active nor effective at helping communicate the governor’s goals to the legislature- and with current leadership generally ignorant of the constituent- his voice needs to be heard above the incessant cacophony of this group of marxist wanna-be’s. Put another way, The captain needs to shout his orders as he goes down with the sinking ship. And the formerly good ship Vermont is sinking fast under the weight of this legislature.
How about shrinking the state government?
How would you do that?
How about secession:2VR