Guest editorial: Vermont's tax challenge

Posted on November 19, 2009 |

• Editorial

By Emerson K. Lynn

If half a company’s revenue came from five percent of its customer base, the CEO would begin each day with the same ritual: prayer.

That’s a narrow base upon which to build hope, let alone a sustainable business.

To an extent, that’s Vermont’s issue, not at the corporate level but with state government. We have a spending level that is disproportionately dependent on a progressive income tax structure and a paltry number of taxpayers.

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