Vermonters – desperately – need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights

The Vermont legislature went home for the season with an $8.5 billion dollar budget hanging in the veto balance. This budget is 13 percent higher than last year’s budget and 32 percent higher than what the state was spending in 2019 before the Covid infusion of federal money. It jumps Vermonters from the fourth highest tax-burdened people in the country…