Category — Pollina

I don’t think we can afford to do “better.”

Pollina Says VT ‘Can Do Better’

Progressive Launches Campaign For Governor In Essex

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Progressive Party candidate Anthony Pollina, 56, of Middlesex launched his campaign for governor of Vermont Thursday evening in a high school cafeteria in Essex Junction.
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This is Pollina’s fourth attempt at statewide office. In 1984 he ran for Congress as a Democrat and lost badly. He gravitated to Vermont’s fledging Progresssive Party soon afterward, worked for U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders in the 1990s and re-emerged as a statewide candidate in 2000. Pollina came in a distant third for governor that year and lieutenant governor in 2002.
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In his announcement speech to supporters, Pollina sharply criticized Douglas[…]for Douglas’ plan to reduce the top marginal state income tax rate.
Pollina offered a general outline of the themes upon which he’ll rely in the campaign, including support for farmers, small-business owners and seniors. He proposes $80 million in additional state borrowing to fix roads and bridges, wants to boost renewable energy development, and help Vermonters use less heating fuel.

Vermont is a magical place. The rest of the country is in foreclosure, jobs are disappearing, the USD is shrinking faster than Alice eating the cookie and here comes Pollina looking to borrow $80 million.
For what is this sum to be borrowed? To fix the roads and bridges for which previously collected taxes were to repair of course. If there is any spare change left over from this debt overload, Pollina will plant the hillsides with pinwheels to create a superfluity of energy for the CFL abusing flatlanders.
Heating Vermont homes, according to Pollina, is a serious obstruction to life in La-La land. The solution is global warming, which is as close to free as one gets. Since the freebie isn’t taxed at least three times, it’s injurious.
Next time, coverage of the universal health care, plastic bag free living and huge taxes on any item finding official disapproval will suffer discussion.