Guest editorial: Taxes: less fair, more complex?

Posted on March 22, 2010 |

• Editorial

By Paul Cillo

Montpelier should be trying to make the education tax system simpler and fairer.  Instead, in the haste to cut General Fund spending, Gov. Jim Douglas would make it more complicated and less fair—increasing taxes on middle-income Vermonters and lowering them on those with higher incomes. Sound crazy? It is.

Most Vermonters agree that the fairest tax is one based on the taxpayer’s ability to pay: a family’s school tax obligation should go up or down along with its income.

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